Sentence examples for esoteric wisdom from inspiring English sources

He travelled, in search of esoteric wisdom, to India and Japan.

As a Marxist, Horowitz had always been confident that his ideology explained everything, that he possessed the esoteric wisdom that "provided the key to all other knowledge". But now a heretical thought seized him: What if his theories were wrong?

According to this tradition, in fact, she was the most important of the disciples -- the one closest to Jesus and the one upon whom he conferred special, esoteric wisdom.

Vestigial rules and formalized vows are discernible, but the main thrust of these monastics was interpersonal, centring both on the relation between the individual teacher of esoteric wisdom (murshid) and his disciple (murīd) and on the practices of chanting and meditation on the secret or known names of God (dhikr) and of other ecstasy-producing methods.

This course explores traditions of Islamic spirituality in South Asia through the lens of three genres: the qawwali, concerts of mystical poetry; sufiana kalam, Sufi romantic epics and folk poems; and the ginans, hymns of esoteric wisdom recited by the Satpanthi Ismailis.

That is, esoteric wisdom can either be attained through practical wisdom, which includes inner purification and asceticism, or through a type of philosophy which includes, but is not limited to discursive reasoning.

It is "esoteric" Leigh suggests.

Others operate in more esoteric settings.

If the meaning of life is not some esoteric piece of wisdom, a hidden key that, once discovered, will unlock the secrets of the universe and end our quest for understanding, then what is it?

I vote with my lady part, and my sacred lady part -- with its esoteric live-giving wisdom -- is telling me to do whatever I have to do to resist and destroy the patriarchal killing machine.

A second trend, the traditionalist, includes efforts that are quite similar to Oruka's sage philosophy in that the efforts are focused on identifying philosophizing practices by traditional Africa thinkers, exploring the philosophical aspects of manifestations of these practices, and examining just how these practices resulted in the development of repositories of wisdom and esoteric knowledge.