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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. -- Milan Kundera
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. -- Muhammad Iqbal
On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made. -- Clint Eastwood
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. -- Hans Hofmann
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. -- Dan Aykroyd
'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great. -- Clint Eastwood
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. -- Joseph Conrad
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I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast. -- Aasif Mandvi
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths. -- Bruce Nauman
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. -- Albert Einstein
In the Art, Science, Philosophy and Mystic rests the temple of Wisdom. -- Samael Aun Weor
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. -- Alan Watts
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. -- Meister Eckhart
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent. -- Elbert Hubbard
The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us. -- George Harrison
The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know. -- Richard Rohr
I've had people tell me to get Mystic Tan, blonde highlights, choppy haircuts, but I've made a conscious decision not to cave. -- Kat Dennings
Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound. -- Abraham Coles
People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza? -- Julia Roberts
Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted. -- David Denby
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Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course, George W. Bush for 'Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.' -- Jay Leno
Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being. -- D. H. Lawrence
TertÃ¶n Sogyal, the Tibetan Mystic, said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling or fire into water. A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded. -- Max Heindel
Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self. -- Carl Jung
I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't know, overpowered by his presence. Like he's a very mystic person. He's older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff. -- Franka Potente
Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge. -- Evelyn Underhill
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. -- E. M. Forster
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. -- Robert Wyatt
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. -- Joseph Campbell
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all. -- Karl Rahner
I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions. -- Rumi
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface. -- Thomas Carlyle
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits. -- Robert Southey
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion. -- George Packer
For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light. -- Virginia Woolf
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. -- Hans Hofmann
For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. -- Muhammad Iqbal
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. -- Basil Bunting
Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. -- John Crowe Ransom
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. -- Abraham Lincoln
Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art....It is a privilege to be alive in this time when we can choose to take part in the self-healing of our world. -- Joanna Macy
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. -- Aldous Huxley
It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds to the planetary rays, and conversely the higher we ascend in the scale of attainment, the more the man conquers and rules his stars, freeing himself from the leading strings of the Divine Hierarchies. -- Max Heindel
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion. -- William Ernest Henley
Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual. -- Walter Russell Mead
My style for the moment is modern mystic priestess. -- Elisa Jimenez
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I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from. -- Debbie Harry
A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. -- Ayn Rand
Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me. -- Peter Porter
The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience. -- Evelyn Underhill
The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul. -- Havelock Ellis
I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer-directed. -- Diane Wilson
And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside. -- Stephen King
My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all. -- Elizabeth Lesser
There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic. -- Anthony de Mello
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience. -- Frances Parkinson Keyes
The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot. -- Vida Dutton Scudder
The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings -- Joseph Campbell
Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. -- James Allen
A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity. -- Lawrence Kushner
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished by it. This mystic quality of color should likewise find expression in a work of art. -- Hans Hofmann
You are one with the same force that provides the spiral arms of the galaxy. That universal creativity. It's also what you are as well. And when the mystic eye is open and sees that, a person is forever changed ! -- Alex Grey
The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The real Journey is a personal venture into your own mind content. Nobody, not the greatest mystic, the most vaunted guru, the most hailed psychologist, though they might shuttle you along the trail for a ways, will get you there. Only you yourself can do that. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core. -- Rumi
A mystic is someone who aches for, continually searches for, direct contact with God; contact not mediated through the emotions or intellect, but a full melding of spirit and will, believing that this is not only possible but is the entire point of life in this world. -- Doug Ferguson
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. -- Albert Einstein
But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted. -- Anais Nin
A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love. -- Joan Z. Borysenko
You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic -- Donald Miller
Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic. -- Jan Morris
In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality. -- Virginia Woolf
Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled. -- Neil Gaiman
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it. -- Bernie Siegel
Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers. -- Hafez
The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world. -- Arthur Symons
Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans. -- Joseph Campbell
The mystic sees God in everything; the scientist, atoms; the poet, poetry. -- Marty Rubin
The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic. -- Edward Abbey
A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor. -- Umberto Eco
Two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall--dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism." -- William Ralph Inge
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets. -- Carl Sandburg
The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets. -- Gerald Massey
There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear. -- Bob Marley
Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno ... -- Federico Garcia Lorca
A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. -- Thomas Carlyle
A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word. -- Emma Lazarus
Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic. -- David Gemmell
Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence. -- Reginald Heber
Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One's splendor. -- Fakeer Ishavardas
Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder -- Bob Dylan
The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined. -- Ambrose Bierce
What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God? -- Rakim
Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes. -- Charles Baudelaire
A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist -- Helena
It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic. -- Joanne Froggatt
The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself. -- Anthony de Mello
An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies. -- Domenico Gnoli
Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma. -- John Stuart Blackie
After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany. -- James Mark Baldwin
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. -- William McElcheran
Never develop any mysticism, about love; for love itself is a mystic thing that puts you in a mystic situation. -- Auliq Ice
In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all. -- Karl Rahner
I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing. -- Fernando Pessoa
Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth! -- Gerald Massey

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