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Quotes About Mystical

Modern philosophies in which history is a process of human self-realization are therefore spin-offs from the mystical speculations of medieval theologians. When Hegel envisioned history as a rational process, he was able to do so because – like Plato and Plotinus – he believed the world was a manifestation of Logos.
~ John Gray
the mystical Force, the energy field all Jedi drew upon for strength, could come in handy.
~ John Jackson Miller
The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.
~ Tom Stoppard
Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.
~ Ingrid Bengis
I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.
~ W. H. Auden
The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.
~ Thomas Merton
The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.
~ William James
I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but then there's a mysticism about them.
~ Unknown
Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.
~ Dennis Kucinich
Man is thus surrounded by a supersensible universe of which he knows nothing because the centers of sense perception within himself have not been developed sufficiently to respond to the subtler rates of vibration of which that universe is composed.
~ Unknown
It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.
~ John Muir
People don't mind having the mystical aspect of a church being poorly defined as long as you make the rules of the church clear.
~ John Scalzi
And when we designed the church, we intentionally made the divine aspect of it as ambiguous as possible. People don't mind having the mystical aspect of a church being poorly defined as long as you make the rules of the church clear. We
~ John Scalzi
She comes out with things, you know, that keep you pondering for hours. There's really something quite Pythian about her!
~ Marcel Proust
corps astral à Golo.
~ Marcel Proust
With finger on her solemn lip, Night hushed the shadowy earth.
~ Margaret Deland
Putting pen to paper is a mystical way to access your most profound truths.
~ Marie Forleo
We don't have a good vocabulary for these experiences. They come in variations and degrees, from a slight apprehension of the strangeness of being to the ravishing dissolution of boundaries called enlightenment. A mystical experience, a peak experience, a blurring or merge between self and other, a liberation from the limits of space and time.
~ Mark Doty
I was halfway between my home and the cookhouse when a mist of cloud began to creep across the early-risen moon. It darkened the ground enough that I did not see a small depression, and I stumbled. Immedietly I was steadied by some force I could not see, and then, as if the coming night clotted into a visible personage, I perceived that Lord Death was beside me.
~ Martine Leavitt
Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.
~ Unknown
And now the senna and camomile were to flavour all her life. She was no longer to enjoy that mystical double existence, those delicious glimpses of dreamland, which made up for all the dulness of the common world that surrounded her.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Religious traditions do make more space for the supernatural, the mystical, and the spiritual, which is why faith is a core element of religion and rarely so in philosophy. It is also why religions can be at peace without definite answers and give answers to some questions that are unanswerable for philosophers (because they often defy logic or rationality).
~ Massimo Pigliucci
If men dream of the mystical. magical, immortal realms of angels ~ What is it then... That angels dream of?
~ Unknown
signs of a life that we cannot explain are everywhere, vibrating by the side of the life of every day.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck