Mystical Quotes - Page 12

• The mystical kundalini is something that I normally use when we're on field trips, when we go to a place of power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Use, Fields

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• As on many mornings in Marin, there is this sly strip of fog - water in it's most mystical incarnation - slithering over, around, and through the hills, making everything look ancient and unsolved.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Morning, Fog, Water

  Mu Soeng, Jaimal Yogis (2010). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Choices, Trying

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• Someone who doesn't know anything about the ways of the horse could be fooled into thinking the approach is all cosmic or mystical. It's not. Anybody can do it who has a passion to do it and has put in enough time. These people are horsemen and horsewomen, not whisperers.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Passion, Thinking

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• Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

  George Vecsey

  Art, Robins, Gorgeous

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• There’s always been this hocus-pocus or magical, mystical thing associated with the making of film that sort of psyches people out and makes them think that this cannot be done; that this is a craft that cannot be learned.

  Spike Lee

  Psych, Thinking, People

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.131, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science. If there is any such concept as a God, it is a subtle spirit, not an image of a man that so many have fixed in their minds. In essence, my religion consists of a humble admiration for this illimitable superior spirit that reveals itself in the slight details that we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Religious, Humble

  Peter A. Bucky, Albert Einstein, Allen G. Weakland (1992). “The private Albert Einstein”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• 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

  Yoga, Joy, Mind

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• Mystical bliss, joy and rapture arises when you realize the inner Sun.

  Amit Ray

  Joy, Sun, Realizing

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• For me words still possess their primitive, mystical, incantatory powers. I am inclined to use them as part of an attempt to make my own reality more real for others, as part of an effort to transcend emotional danger. For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Real, Emotional, Effort

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• Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality's particles interact with each other every instant, is like a note that rings and resonates throughout the great bell of creation. And the sound of the ringing propagates instantaneously , everywhere at once, interconnecting all things. This is a truth of our universe. It is a mystical truth, that reality at its deepest level is an undivided wholeness.

  David Zindell

  Reality, Sound, Events

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• When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.

  Jacques Ellul

  Christian, Prayer, Men

  Jacques Ellul, Geoffrey W. Bromiley (2011). “The Judgment of Jonah”, p.23, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a cosmic sense of justice that ensures that a loser's luck will turn around. The universe doesn't care one whit whether you've been winning or losing; each roll of the dice is just like every other.

  Charles Seife

  Winning, Justice, Luck

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• 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

  Heart, Sacrifice, Broken

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)”

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• The concept of an independent "spiritual realm" does not augment, for me, the magic of the mystical dimension, whereas to think of this dimension as emergent from our minds makes it all the more wondrous to be a human.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Spiritual, Independent, Thinking

  "The Faith of Scientists : In Their Own Words". Book by Nancy K. Frankenberry, 2008.

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• When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.

  Jane Wagner

  Dancing, Molecules

  "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Play by Jane Wagner, 1985.

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• The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings... Much use is made of it in the advanced degrees, and entire Rites have been constructed on its principles.

  Albert Mackey

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Principles

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• The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eye-field suggest both expansion of consciousness and sharing of consciousness with other beings. The painting was based on a profoundly ego dissolving entheogenic mystical trance where I heard the words, 'Infinite Oneness... the Oneness should never forget the Infinitude and the Infinitude should never forget the Oneness...'

  Alex Grey

  Eye, Oneness, Ego

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• 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

  Morning, Work, Acting

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• What is creativity? Having spent my life in one creative endeavor after another, I can tell you it's not something magical or mystical. It's something very simple. To me, it's just a moment - a moment where we look at the ordinary, but we see the extraordinary. It happens all the time in my photography.

  Dewitt Jones

  Photography, Creativity, Simple

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• The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?

  Katharine Hamnett

  Fashion, Men, Primitive Man

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• What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Years, Mystical Experiences, Today

  Arjuna Ardagh (2010). “The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World”, p.41, New World Library

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• Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off the ground. You're trapped in your hotel room. It's the mystical sweat love lodge experience of our time, the only sort of Indian vision quest we can schedule into our daily planner.Our Stair Master to Heaven.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Sweat, Climbing

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• There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

  Adrienne Rich

  Song, Art, Inspiration

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.117, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Coming to know the hidden and forgotten Mother and the marvelous wisdom of the sacred feminine as revealed from every side and angle by the different mystical traditions is not luxury; it is, I believe, a necessity for our survival as a species.

  Andrew Harvey

  Mother, Believe, Luxury

  Andrew Harvey (2012). “Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action”, p.187, North Atlantic Books

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