Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity,… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
“When you truly believe in the desires of your heart, they show themselves to you, creating a world you wish to see.… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
If you work with such people almost on the level of spiritual direction, you see that they are people who prefer a… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Life is a mystical and tragic thing. It is a journey often full of fear, when it ought to be full of… — L.K. Hill Copy Share Image
And having those mystical elements you see in Asian cinema and certainly Asian martial arts cinema, it's something that we wanted to… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long… — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and… — Nyanaponika Thera Copy Share Image
IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“You might just be compelled to hear, that there is folklore about a boy so dear, a legend the fairies readily discern,… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
“Life on earth can never be fully understood. Life and all it holds is too big for humans to understand. There is… — Jan Krause Greene Copy Share Image
In a mystical sense, three can become one, in the sense that two is not one; three is a way of resolving… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
The beauty of the Catholic church is that it has a sacramental structure that can hold its own with the best out… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song… It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Jobs had begun to drop acid by then, and he turned Brennan on to it as well, in a wheat field just… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
...well this US eight, with all its material occupying every seat just would not go fast. They rowed their hearts out but… — Daniel Topolski Copy Share Image
“Waiting for one’s execution is worse than dying. To seek my beheading is glory. Who went to his execution willingly? Jesus did.… — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For me words still possess their primitive, mystical, incantatory powers. I am inclined to use them as part of an attempt to… — Ingrid Bengis Copy Share Image
Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
As an actor, I started using dreams more, which is not mystical or anything like that. I just found that I've been… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
The kinds of mystical experiences that I have had definitely convinced me that I was able to get out of time. I… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
