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Top 10 Patrick Harpur Quotes (2025 Update)

Patrick Harpur Quote: “However much we wish the soul’s path to be straight, upward, and ascending, it is more likely to be meandering, full of regressions, downward turns, and backward glances.”

1. “However much we wish the soul’s path to be straight, upward, and ascending, it is more likely to be meandering, full of regressions, downward turns, and backward glances.”

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Patrick Harpur Quote: “Death is a portal into that greater reality that can already be glimpsed in this world as an imaginative experience of the Otherworld.”

2. “Death is a portal into that greater reality that can already be glimpsed in this world as an imaginative experience of the Otherworld.”

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Patrick Harpur Quote: “Our souls do not change in time; they reveal more and different and opposite views of themselves, just as the prima materia does in the course of its transmutation into the Stone.”

3. “Our souls do not change in time; they reveal more and different and opposite views of themselves, just as the prima materia does in the course of its transmutation into the Stone.”

— Patrick Harpur

Patrick Harpur Quote: “What you knew in your childhood is true; the Otherworld of magic and enchantment is real, sometimes terribly real – and certainly more real than the factual reality which our culture has built up, brick by brick, to shut out colour and light and prevent us from flying.”

4. “What you knew in your childhood is true; the Otherworld of magic and enchantment is real, sometimes terribly real – and certainly more real than the factual reality which our culture has built up, brick by brick, to shut out colour and light and prevent us from flying.”

— Patrick Harpur

Patrick Harpur Quote: “Imagination, not reason, is the chief faculty of the soul.”

5. “Imagination, not reason, is the chief faculty of the soul.”

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Patrick Harpur Quote: “We cannot solve mysteries – we can only enter into them; and then it is we who are solved or dissolved – transformed in such a way that we see the “problem” quite differently.”

6. “We cannot solve mysteries – we can only enter into them; and then it is we who are solved or dissolved – transformed in such a way that we see the “problem” quite differently.”

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Patrick Harpur Quote: “The more we imbue the world with imagination, the more the world is ensouled – and the more soul it returns to us, singing with meaning.”

7. “The more we imbue the world with imagination, the more the world is ensouled – and the more soul it returns to us, singing with meaning.”

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Patrick Harpur Quote: “The more we realize our selves, the less they seem to be our selves, as if the world-soul merely wishes to reflect itself through our eyes. The less self-important we are, the more important we are as selves, with a unique perspective on the cosmos.”

8. “The more we realize our selves, the less they seem to be our selves, as if the world-soul merely wishes to reflect itself through our eyes. The less self-important we are, the more important we are as selves, with a unique perspective on the cosmos.”

— Patrick Harpur

Patrick Harpur Quote: “We are constantly distilling our selves out of ourselves like fountains that gush from underground wellsprings, flash briefly in the sun, and return to their source.”

9. “We are constantly distilling our selves out of ourselves like fountains that gush from underground wellsprings, flash briefly in the sun, and return to their source.”

— Patrick Harpur

Patrick Harpur Quote: “Ideologies can only ever hope to change our lifestyles; it takes soul to change our lives.”

10. “Ideologies can only ever hope to change our lifestyles; it takes soul to change our lives.”

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Patrick Harpur Quote: “We are more like a many-faceted whole, and it is our task in the course of a lifetime to realize each facet of our selves – a journey that is more likely to be downward, circular, and labyrinthine than upward, onward, and straight.”

11. “We are more like a many-faceted whole, and it is our task in the course of a lifetime to realize each facet of our selves – a journey that is more likely to be downward, circular, and labyrinthine than upward, onward, and straight.”

— Patrick Harpur

Patrick Harpur Quote: “The paradox is that we can only truly love each other when we also love something beyond each other.”

12. “The paradox is that we can only truly love each other when we also love something beyond each other.”

— Patrick Harpur

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