Numinous Quotes
24 quotes by 21 authors
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Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the…
— Thomas Berry
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The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter.
— John O'Donohue
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Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this…
— Thomas Berry
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Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
— C.S. Lewis
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If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks…
— Grant Morrison
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The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all…
— Thomas Berry
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Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that…
— Mary Karr
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To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.
— Alan McGlashan
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling.…
— Oliver Sacks
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A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means…
— Brian Swimme
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Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me
— Marilynne Robinson
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I believe that used responsibly and in a mature way, the entheogens mediate access to the numinous dimensions of existence, have a great healing and…
— Stanislav Grof
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Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities…
— Julian Burnside
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Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so cinema became sort…
— Jason Silva
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Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality.…
— Camille Paglia
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It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy…
— Carl Sagan
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While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would…
— Kate Atkinson
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To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after…
— Stephen Fry
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The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or…
— Christopher Hitchens
Who Wrote These Numinous Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 24 Numinous Quotes as follows: