Mystical Quotes
263 Mystical quotes by 208 unique authors
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The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the…
— Salman Rushdie
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It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a…
— M. Ward
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I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as opposed…
— Unknown Author
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I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before,…
— Albert Einstein
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So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence,…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that…
— David Gilmour
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Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers are caught up…
— Natalie Zemon Davis
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I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.
— Charles Manson
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I don't know what 'my way' is. Everybody keeps telling me I got all these things. I read the other day where I had magical…
— Charles Manson
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us…
— Umberto Eco
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I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if…
— Ansel Adams
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There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis…
— Julian Barnes
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The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.…
— William James
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I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its…
— Paul Auster
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My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."
— Wallace Stevens
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Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it…
— Wayne Teasdale
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You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization. Our religious life…
— Unknown Author
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And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is…
— Pope Leo I
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So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.
— Adam Kirsch
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There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on…
— Marianne Williamson
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I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.
— Thomas Browne
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Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring
— Nelly Furtado
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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
— David Lynch
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Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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