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Quotes About Mystical

Carhart-Harris suspects that the loss of a clear distinction between subject and object might help explain another feature of the mystical experience: the fact that the insights it sponsors are felt to be objectively true—revealed truths rather than plain old insights. It could be that in order to judge an insight as merely subjective, one person's opinion, you must first have a sense of subjectivity. Which is precisely what the mystic on psychedelics has lost.
~ Michael Pollan
I don't know my why the number 3 is more metaphysically powerful than the number 2, but it is.
~ Bob Dylan
Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
~ Bram Stoker
He raised his arms and in sonorous tones he called on Addy Domarus several times and in several different ways to Come! Come!
~ Susanna Clarke
I have fallen a long way. Clouds are flowering Blue and mystical over the face of the stars Inside the church, the saints will all be blue, Floating on their delicate feet over the cold pews, Their hands and faces stiff with holiness. The moon sees nothing of this. She is bald and wild. And the message of the yew tree is blackness - blackness and silence.
~ Sylvia Plath
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~ Ted Dekker
This is where the staring angels go through. This is where all the stars bow down.
~ Ted Hughes
According to traditional man the physical plane merely contains effects; nothing takes place in this world that did not originate first in the next world or in the invisible dimension.
~ Julius Evola
The acceleration that characterizes all falling bodies causes the phase of individualism and rationalism to be overcome and to be followed by the emergence of irrational and elemental forces characterized by mystical overtones. It is here that we encounter further developments in the well-known process of regression. In the domain of culture this regression is accompanied by an upheaval that has been characterized with the expression "treason of the clerics.
~ Julius Evola
In order to find God, we do not have to leave the world, to isolate ourselves from our fellow humans, and to plunge into some kind of mystical void. On the contrary, Christ is looking at us through the eyes of all those whom we meet. Once we recognize his universal presence, all our acts of practical service to others become acts of prayer.
~ Kallistos Ware
There are two kinds of religious experience. Experiential, when you personally have an ecstatic or mystical experience. And canonical, when someone tells you what to think and believe, and you bleat in agreement, moving with a large herd. Ancient cultures were all about the former. And all the troubles of the world today come from the latter.
~ Kapka Kassabova
Hanade's Puppet Repair Shop did, indeed, carry "all kinds of doodads." The tiny store was crammed with Oriental trinkets, samurai swords, brass Buddhas, dolls' heads hanging on the wall, birds and bird cages, aquariums with darting tropical fish, and numerous other items.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The Sealed Shrine
~ Brandon Mull
I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.
~ Brandon Sanderson
There's always another secret
~ Brandon Sanderson
We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences, but in our simple presence in life.
~ Brennan Manning
Therefore every real revolutionary is challenged to be a mystic at heart, and he who walks the mystical way is called to unmask the illusory quality of human society.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Here at Big Sur, at a certain time of the year and a certain time of the day only, a pale blue-green hue pervades the distant hills. . . . It is not only the tone and color of distance, abetted by the magic fall of light, it is a mystical phenomenon, or so I like to think, born of a certain way of looking at the world.
~ Henry Miller
In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.
~ Herman Melville
It really does not matter whether one believes a mystical entity created the universe 5,000 or 10,000 million years ago - both are equally irrational, unsubstantiated claims of no fundamental validity.
~ Harry Kroto
I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s.
~ Dave Davies
Carnegie was a life-long dream because I was a born New Yorker. I was born in upstate New York, and we've played Radio City, and we've played The Beacon, but Carnegie was this mystical place, you know?
~ Joe Bonamassa