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
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
"Hallelujah" is a joyous expression the Christians have, but "Hare Krishna" has a mystical side to it. It's more than just glorifying… — George Harrison 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
I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 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
“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
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
“The very fact that 'the mystical' is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions… — Richard King Copy Share Image
“Dreams are like the old stories where wolves are seekers always running, and women carry fire in their bare hands and light… — Tamara Rendell Copy Share Image
“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
I was introduced to cannabis when I was 16. I realized the similarity to the mystical experiences I'd had - the enhancing… — Amanda Feilding 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
“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
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
“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
“Above all things have charity, which is the bond of perfection and may the peace of Christ exult in your hearts in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within… — Aldous Huxley 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
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity,… — George Gilder 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The religions are the buildings or the institutions, the groups, but inside of that is what moves, is what's alive, is the… — Surya Das 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
...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
“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
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
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
“The mystical life is a hidden life. It is a life hidden in God. It flourishes best when not exposed to public… — Stephen J. Rossetti Copy Share Image
