Numinous Quotes

24 quotes by 21 authors

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
The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter. — John O'Donohue
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
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
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
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
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
To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person. — Alan McGlashan
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
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
Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me — Marilynne Robinson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The fragility of love is what is most at stake hereâ€”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: