A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ...… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
For Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-1674), one of the sanest men who ever lived, to see the world with the eyes of innocence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the recurrent ambiguity of the American tale of the supernatural reveals both a fascination with the possibility of numinous experience and… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
The transcendent and the numinous can be accessible to the most materialistic of scientists, without positing the supernatural. At the same time,… — Norman Cota Copy Share Image
The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the… — Julian Burnside Copy Share Image
While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“The human species – mammalian primates though undoubtedly (s)he is, and made out of the dust of exploded suns - does have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person. — Alan McGlashan Copy Share Image
“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… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
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… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
We know how to think. We know how to laugh. We know we're going to die, which gives us a lot to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image