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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. -- Thomas Sowell
Mystical powers develop primarily through the raising of the kundalini. The Kundalini is a type of energy that exists within all things. It's possible to pull that energy, to mass it, to transmit it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. -- Jean Houston
Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence. -- Jim Morrison
Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want. -- Umberto Eco
Mystical bliss, joy and rapture arises when you realize the inner Sun. -- Amit Ray
Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. -- Herbert Read
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. -- David Lynch
O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body. -- Thomas Aquinas
Love does not experience insecurity because love is aware of its own power.From the book - The 7 Mystical Laws of Self-healing -- Sanjiv Ranjan
I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent. -- Edward Abbey
Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over. -- Tom Cowan
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair. -- William Dunbar
Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable. -- Kate Millett
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion. -- Criss Angel
Mystical references to 'society' and its programs to 'help' may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means isputting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. -- Thomas Sowell
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats -- Thomas Sowell
Mystical experiences (unlike scientific conclusions) cannot be communicated from one person to another. Philosophers and little children are continually amazed that we, unaccountably, find ourselves in a somewhat intelligible world. -- Sam Keen
Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant and steady, this positive joy arises. -- Amit Ray
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. -- Robertson Davies
Mystical power, as you know, has a whole different flavor to it. It's much more raucous at times; it's much more poignant at times. It involves more of the emotional body. -- Frederick Lenz
Mystical power, as you know, has a whole different flavor to it. It's much more raucous at times; it's much more poignant at times. It involves more of the emotional body. -- Frederick Lenz
Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation. -- Paul Tillich
Mystical experiences do not necessarily supply new ideas to the mind, rather, they transform what one believes into what one knows, converting abstract concepts, such as divine love, into vivid, personal, realities. -- R.M. Jones
All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal. -- Richard Le Gallienne
Mystical powers develop primarily through the raising of the kundalini. The Kundalini is a type of energy that exists within all things. It's possible to pull that energy, to mass it, to transmit it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. -- William James
I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere. -- Oscar Wilde
If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation. -- Thomas Keating
If you wish to convert anyone to the fullness of the knowledge of Our Lord and of His Mystical Body, then teach him the Rosary. One of two things will happen. Either he will stop saying the Rosary - or he will get the gift of faith. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness of the individual is like a flame that burns through the night. It is not the same flame over time, yet neither is it another flame. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers. -- Thomas Carlyle
I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature. -- Madison Smartt Bell
Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force. -- Gloria Estefan
The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical. -- Richard Owen
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it. -- John Calvin
It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence. -- Stanislav Grof
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured. -- Edward de Bono
It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it -- Jimmy Buffett
As you absorb more mystical kundalini, you will able to perform a few minor miracles. As you do this, you run a great risk of egotism. Some people handle it well; some don't. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely. -- Katie Featherston
For me, acting goes to a special place; it's almost mystical. You have to let go of what you think is good; it's a jump into trust, and trying to reach without wanting too much. -- Juliette Binoche
Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the classical sense, fully enlightened. It means that you have mastered a few aspects of the mystical kundalini. That's all it means. -- Frederick Lenz
It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations. -- Paul Brunton
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is this school of thought that says the usage of all mystical and occult powers is bad. I find that thought is usually propounded by people who don't have any powers. It's kind of a sour grapes attitude. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas. -- Dan Jenkins
I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but when I watch 'Game of Thrones' on On Demand, I'm glued to the set. It's mystical and addictive. Tyrion Lannister, that's my man. -- Steve Harvey
Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth. -- Marianne Williamson
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available. -- Sam Harris
Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial. -- Tom Robbins
There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality. -- Marianne Williamson
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This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God. -- Joseph Campbell
Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see. -- Sharon Salzberg
So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence, but rather as a new engagement with life. He is offering us a relationship to the world that is more sensitized to suffering and the causes of suffering, and he gives rise to the possibility of another kind of culture, another kind of civilization. -- Stephen Batchelor
I am the witch of my mystical world. -- Usha Cosmico
His had disappearedDid you know they have mystical powers? -- Desiree Holt
Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one. -- Caroline Myss
This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me. -- Marianne Curley
The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane. -- Aldous Huxley
I like how Ralph Lauren creates a mystical world through his clothing. -- Ezra Koenig
Near the land of the convertible moon; there's a mystical star - the star of promise. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. -- George Orwell
...Humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman. -- G. K. Chesterson
Bouldering isn't really a sport. It's a climbing activity with metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical overtones. -John Gill- -- Jon Krakauer
I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical. -- Jean Dujardin
I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to. -- Brandon Sanderson
The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody. -- Tom Stoppard
I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly. -- Charles Manson
A mystical path requires courage as you must take a first step of faith so that the second may be of science. ? -- Luis Marques
...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known. -- Irving Stone
I read trash. Empty cereal boxes, empty shampoo bottles, the bottoms of empty Kleenex boxes, and occasionally even a mystical self-help book. -- Jarod Kintz
It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. -- Junius
She was taking a round of medications, a mystical wheel, the ritualistic design of the hours and days in tablets and capsules, in colors, shapes and numbers. -- Don DeLillo
And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical. -- Victor Garber
I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention. -- Jean-Marc Vallee
Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul. -- Frank Tipler
Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds. -- Arthur Eddington
There are mystical, unbreakable bonds between all members of the natural world including humans and animals. Whether or not we remember or acknowledge this relatedness, it still exists. -- Elizabeth Eiler
That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices. -- William Robertson Smith
What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious. -- Scott Russell Sanders
Our goal isn't contentment in and of itself. We're not after a mystical state of Zen. Our goal is to be content for the glory and honor of God. -- Stephen Altrogge
Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'! -- Dan Brown
This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula -- Chris Murray
What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can. -- Parker Stevenson
Something mystical can happen in the course of acting together that transcends words and ideologies--people who do not agree on ideas can create common ground in the act of loving. -- Shane Claiborne
Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle. -- Brian Weiss
Maybe, these ideas are pointing to something mystical and true. And perhaps i am judging hte idea, not by its merit, but by the fashionable or unfashionable delivery of the message. -- Donald Miller
In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric.The secret isn't that you're not being told.The secret is that you're not able to hear. -- Ram Dass
No matter how glorious the perception, no matter how gratifying the event,nothing is ever truly fulfilling until you draw closer to God and enter the mystical temple God placed within you. -- Kristen Johnson Ingram
Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I have wandered freely in mystical traditions that are not religious and have been profoundly influenced by them. It is my church, however, that I keep returning, for she is my spiritual home. -- Anthony De Mello S.J.
The more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is incomplete unless one includes the central theme of love. -- Rumi
I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way. -- Janet Suzman
Marco could not have known about the mystical effect of a full moon on cats and books left on their own in the library. Not until he saw the lines breathe, the words unveiled. -- Rahma Krambo
Everything is exactly as it is for a reason.The crumb on your table isno mystical reminder of this morning's cookie,it is there because you have chosen not to remove it.No exceptions. -- Richard Bach
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest. -- Swami Vivekananda
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same. -- George Orwell
No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is. -- Nicole Krauss
As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories. -- Moshe Sharett
...something which, for want of a more definite term at present, I must be permitted to be called queer; but which Mr. Coleridge would have called mystical, Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hyperquizzitistical. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The feeling cannot be described in words, it's mystical; I am changing. Perhaps the soul needed silence so that it can shout to hear the echo from the walls of my heart. It did heard something, Sufism! -- Dr. S.U.A.H Syed
My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging. -- Christopher Meloni
Out of the blue, Paul reported feeling bouts of calm euphoria, a mystical sense of all's-right-with-his-life-and-the-universe, a bright future in sight. ... I knew well the state of vigorous calm he meant, a frequent visitor throughout my own life. [p. 290] -- Diane Ackerman
Physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which we know because whatever exists must be explicable by physics, which we know because physics explains everything. There is something here of the mystical. -- David Bentley Hart
If a man cannot learn well a melody on pipe or harp, unless he in every way strain his attention; how shall one, who sits as a listener to sounds mystical, be able to hear with a careless soul? -- John Chrysostom
When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds. -- James Redfield
When Ruben talked about spiritual freedom and self-awareness and how to change your reality, it wasn't with mystical grandeur. He spoke very practically. He talked about the body as a machine and the brain as the software that ran the machine. -- Ruben Papian
Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished. -- Tom Robbins
Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies. -- Laini Taylor
You have to know someone intimately to be able to love them. So love at first sight is a contradiction in terms. Unless in that first sight there's some sort of mystical gigabyte downloading of information from one mind into the other. -- David Mitchell
Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes. -- Leo Kottke

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