Mystical Quotes
263 Mystical quotes by 208 unique authors
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Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of…
— Edward Abbey
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Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what…
— Joseph Campbell
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Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of…
— Deepak Chopra
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Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite hard.…
— Tove Jansson
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It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world…
— John O'Donohue
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The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.
— Julia Cameron
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Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.
— Caroline Myss
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The Land of Dreams, that mystical realm, where the oddest of visions appear, come wander through scenes of joyful peace, or stampeded through nightmares of…
— Brian Jacques
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The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A…
— Tom Clancy
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Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
— Alfred Adler
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I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.
— John Lurie
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I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use…
— Brendan I. Koerner
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The beauty of the Catholic church is that it has a sacramental structure that can hold its own with the best out of any tradition.…
— John O'Donohue
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I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search…
— Dan Jenkins
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Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.
— Nicolas Roeg
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All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
— O.R. Melling
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My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience,…
— Alan Garner
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Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical,…
— Rose Tremain
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As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a…
— Moshe Sharett
Who Wrote These Mystical Quotes
208 authors contributed a total of 263 Mystical Quotes, led by these top contributors: