Mystical Experience Quotes

21 quotes by 18 authors

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience. — Logan Pearsall Smith
The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible… — Albert Hofmann
As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf… — Thomas Merton
Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic that nature sustains… — Carl von Essen
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
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
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
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
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude.… — Bill Viola
All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course. — Tom Stoppard
What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins. — Arjuna Ardagh
Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself when… — Manly Hall
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the… — Bernard Malamud
The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception. — Thomas Merton
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
The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody. — Tom Stoppard
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
I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that. — John Lurie
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
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

Who Wrote These Mystical Experience Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 21 Mystical Experience Quotes as follows: