Best Mystical Wisdom
263 Mystical quotes by 208 unique authors
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Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.
— Gloria Estefan
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Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued…
— Sam Harris
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I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but when I watch 'Game of…
— Steve Harvey
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I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance…
— Jean Houston
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by…
— William James
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My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical…
— Christopher Meloni
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Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of…
— Jim Morrison
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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
— Richard Owen
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What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
— Herbert Read
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Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power…
— Thomas Sowell
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When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the…
— Walt Whitman
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Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But…
— Marilynne Robinson
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This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me.
— Marianne Curley
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The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
— William Butler Yeats
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Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s…
— Amy Jenkins
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Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words, natural sexuality is…
— Wilhelm Reich
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In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is…
— Ram Dass
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True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some…
— Dorothy Day
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Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there…
— Richard Bach
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His own voice was older than he was. Ancient, unearthed from some mystical subterranean place...The voice seemed to make his whole body ache. Maybe it…
— Francesca Lia Block
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...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.
— Irving Stone
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