“Whereas reason dominates feeling, mystical knowing does not “conquer” reason—it envelops it, embraces it, transcends it. Thus, mystical or spiritual intuition is… — Christian de Quincey Copy Share Image
“The kingdom of nature has such a job, That can even make a goblin’s heart throb, It’s true, only a handful of… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
“From Desert Prince, Expectant Mother … “he had the aura of a mystical knight, with power enough to bear mythic burdens, determination… — Olivia Gates Copy Share Image
Start as a human being in this culture, toss in madness, toss in mystical states, toss in being gay, toss in being… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization.… — David Kudler Copy Share Image
Feminism is lesbian in the sense that lesbians have always hated the female role and coveted the male role. It is based… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
Based or our baptism, all are called to a mystical life, to communion with God. We need to claim that, to taste… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Love, be mystical as the flickering blue flame of night as the fully-awoken moon beneath cobwebs of passing clouds amidst chanting high-tides… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I think most people are fascinated by chess for that reason. It's just these mystical shapes. It's almost like Harry Potteresque, like… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“His accelerated path to yogihood hit a dead end when his kundalini exploded in a crowded department store. No one else was… — Swami Beyondananda Copy Share Image
There are certain mystical belief systems that believe that taking pictures takes an aspect of the soul, but beyond that it's just… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Grampa says the grass is not greener on the other side. All grass changes with the seasons, it grows, it browns, and… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Life and the Universe are beneficent. If we make friends with our experience and work with the flow of life rather than… — Katherine Parker Copy Share Image
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
I don't know what 'my way' is. Everybody keeps telling me I got all these things. I read the other day where… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
When the Kundalini rises, automatically you develop your own balances and that balanced life manifests outside. Now this ecological problem can be… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Someone who doesn't know anything about the ways of the horse could be fooled into thinking the approach is all cosmic or… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“You mean to tell me that you have made a human friend? It could be dangerous and I must urge it to… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Think of the mystical three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection as the time it takes for a situation to change… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I've been wondering too, not because I've become a believer in all things mystical, but because I've realized that maybe there are… — Katie Bayerl Copy Share Image
Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words,… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Beyond its practical aspects, gardening - be it of the soil or soul - can lead us on a philosophical and spiritual… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
“WINTER'S GHOST: Autumn moon incautious in the dark river Winter’s ghost walks with a covered face and silver bones wait in all… — Tamara Rendell Copy Share Image
Don't worry about wearing the sign; be the sign. You don't have to wear a sandwich board saying, "I am religious and… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Chakras are mystical energy centers that exist within the human aura. Tremendous occult power resides in a person's chakras. Siddha masters draw… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
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