Under the influence of both these elements, a quietistic mysticism and an antagonism to reason in matters of faith, his scorn for all natural works grew.
I conceive this to be the more strenuous type of emotion; but I have to admit that its inability to let loose quietistic raptures is a serious deficiency in the pluralistic philosophy which I profess.
To minds thus willing to live on possibilities that are not certainties, quietistic religion, sure of salvation ANY HOW, has a slight flavor of fatty degeneration about it which has caused it to be looked askance on, even in the church.
Frequently you may feel that you are getting nowhere with practice in the midst of activity, whereas the quietistic approach brings unexpected results.
Yet rest assured that those who use the quietistic approach can never hope to enter into meditation in the midst of activity.
Ta-hui also experimented with the Ts'ao-tung teachings, but early on began to question the straitlaced, quietistic approach of that house.
The Zen Master Ta-hui has said that meditation in the midst of activity is immeasurably superior to the quietistic approach.
Hakuin himself claimed that he first tried the quietistic approach of tranquil meditation (albeit on a koan), but he was unable to clear his mind of all distractions.
Quietistic meditation is easier, naturally, but a person who practices it will turn out to be just as insecure and petty as someone not enlightened at all.
Do we not find in this circumstance an explanation of their tendency to extol the quietistic and solitary poets, and, on the other hand, to depreciate the poets who deal with action and the more complex features of life?
All poets of the first rank are both; yet the quietistic and purely introspective critics assign a place, and a prior place as a rule, in the front rank, to poets who are only second.
Four chief Quietistic aberrations can be studied in history.
But quietistic Mysticism often puts the matter on a wrong basis.
Ritschl was the first to point out how strongly Nominalism influenced the later Mysticism, by giving it its quietistic character.
Footnote 295: The real founder of Spanish quietistic Mysticism was Pedro of Alcantara (d.
This quietistic tendency cannot be denied in the fourteenth century mystics, though it is largely counteracted by maxims of an opposite kind.
The quietistic controversy in France was carried on in an atmosphere of political intrigues and private jealousies, which in no way concern us.
Both are treatises onquietistic Mysticism of a peculiar type.
Their grandest evangelist, Fox, was their strongest bulwark against thequietistic spirit.
The spread of thisQuietistic spirit amongst Friends effectually stopped the evangelistic work which marked and glorified the early years of their society.
It is significant that Barclay and not Fox was the favourite writer of the Quietistic age of Quakerism.
