Practical Mysticism · Character

John Keats

Romantic poet quoted for his concept of negative capability and mystical insight.

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Also known as Keats

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The World of Reality
Keats is quoted for his aspiration 'O for a life of sensations rather than thoughts!' as an example of the poetic desire to escape conceptual thought and reach intuitive contact with reality.
III: The Preparation of the Mystic
Quoted for the line 'All which I took from thee I did but take...' in the context of purification.
IV: Meditation and Recollection
Keats is quoted for his poetic lines about 'Reason has moons, but moons not hers,' illustrating the meditative eye glimpsing a dream within rational propositions.
Love and Will
Mentioned in the context of the supremacy of feeling over thought, aligning with the mystical emphasis on loving intuition.

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