The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our… — William James Copy Share Image
When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
All those experiences were a chance to learn more about music. Playing with the Valley band is like such a "live" band.… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“When your chair is positioned facing the wall, you see the wall. When it is positioned facing the sea, you see the… — Tehya Sky Copy Share Image
The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves! — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Tertön Sogyal, the Tibetan Mystic, said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The difference between Pound and Whitman is not between the democrat who in deep distress could look hopefully toward the future and… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's a big part of me that's atheist. There's a big part of me that's agnostic. And there's a big part of… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
"Sense of justice is one of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Qur'an I find those… — Sarojini Naidu Copy Share Image
“As we stand before this sacred doorway [the doorway to meaning], we realize its response to us is conditional, albeit only in… — Tehya Sky Copy Share Image
Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
