Best Mystical Quotations
263 Mystical quotes by 208 unique authors
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The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings... Much use…
— Albert Mackey
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The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eye-field suggest both expansion of consciousness and sharing of consciousness with other beings. The painting…
— Alex Grey
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What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and…
— Parker Stevenson
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This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one…
— William James
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying:…
— Katharine Hamnett
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The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the Sower,…
— John Stokes
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Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making…
— Rumi
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It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it
— Jimmy Buffett
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To be willing to suffer in order to create is one thing; to realize that one's creation necessitates one's suffering, that suffering is one of…
— J. W. N. Sullivan
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That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the…
— William Robertson Smith
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Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided…
— William Butler Yeats
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Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.
— Mitchell Burgess
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I don't want to sound mystical but sometimes when you take a picture - when the sets are in place - then something takes over…
— Tim Walker
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The concept of an independent spiritual realm does not augment, for me, the magic of the mystical dimension, whereas to think of this dimension as…
— Ursula Goodenough
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I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.
— Edward Abbey
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It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much…
— Paul Brunton
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Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple…
— George Vecsey
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There’s always been this hocus-pocus or magical, mystical thing associated with the making of film that sort of psyches people out and makes them think…
— Spike Lee
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I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is…
— Albert Einstein
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Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant and…
— Amit Ray
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Mystical bliss, joy and rapture arises when you realize the inner Sun.
— Amit Ray
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For me words still possess their primitive, mystical, incantatory powers. I am inclined to use them as part of an attempt to make my own…
— Ingrid Bengis
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Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality's particles interact with each other every instant, is like a note that rings and resonates…
— David Zindell
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When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we…
— Jacques Ellul
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