To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a…

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

— Brian Swimme

“You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't only know reason. And since revelation is a…

— Mark Helprin

“The human species – mammalian primates though undoubtedly (s)he is, and made out of the dust of exploded suns - does have the need…

— Christopher Hitchens

While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously.…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and…

— Julian Burnside

The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter.

— John O'Donohue

The transcendent and the numinous can be accessible to the most materialistic of scientists, without positing the supernatural. At the same time, there is…

— Norman Cota

“But the recurrent ambiguity of the American tale of the supernatural reveals both a fascination with the possibility of numinous experience and a perplexity…

— Howard Kerr

For Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-1674), one of the sanest men who ever lived, to see the world with the eyes of innocence, and so…

— Anonymous

We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are composed only…

— David Eagleman

“If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it’s only in the same way a fish…

— Grant Morrison

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

— C. S. Lewis

I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana…

— Kate Atkinson

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is…

— Stephen Fry

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing…

— Christopher Hitchens