Mystical Quotes - Page 15

• As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.

  Tina Turner

  Children, Grandmother, Stories

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• 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

  Magic, Age, World

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• This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.

  William James

  Oneness, Differences, Achievement

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.378, Library of America

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• We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Flower, Yield

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• Turkey was fantastic, Turkey was like mystical and such a special place. Just unique, something that's really hard to describe, such beauty.

  Violante Placido

  Unique, Erosion, Turkeys

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• Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.

  Rumi

  Fall, Tree, Together

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• To be willing to suffer in order to create is one thing; to realize that one's creation necessitates one's suffering, that suffering is one of the greatest of God's gifts, is almost to reach a mystical solution of the problem of evil.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Creativity, Order, Ideas

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• Do not reflect on the meaning of the word; thinking and reflecting must cease, as all mystical writers insist. Simply "sound" the word silently, letting go of all feelings and thoughts.

  Willigis Jager

  Letting Go, Thinking, Feelings

  Willigis Jager (1994). “Contemplation: A Christian Path”, Triumph Books

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• 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

  Sacrifice, Men, Ideas

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• It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just what we do with our body we do with our soul.

  Max Lucado

  Soul, Body, Secretive

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• Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Believe, Wings, Icons

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• I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.

  William Shatner

  Horse, Communication, Mystical Experiences

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• 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

  Spiritual, Art, Real

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• ...well this US eight, with all its material occupying every seat just would not go fast. They rowed their hearts out but it never started to sing through the water. And no one ever found out why. The answer to this is slightly mystical because the sum of a crew is greater than its parts. Those eight heavyweights had not time to develop the bond, the sacred trust, that can make a racing eight fly.

  Daniel Topolski

  Heart, Eight, Water

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• As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.

  Jean Piaget

  Practice, Games, Adults

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.

  Debbie Harry

  Elements

  "Platinum Blondie". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2017.

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• 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

  Emotional, Different, Flavor

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• The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Artist, People, May

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.106, Shambhala Publications

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• He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.

  Didier Drogba

  Soccer, Football, Minutes

  "Drog: Jose Is a Living God" by Neil McLeman, www.mirror.co.uk. January 18, 2006.

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• For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Mystical Experiences

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• Tonight I have inundated you with the mystical kundalini. Now, of course, I'm moving into the supra-conscious; it's kind of a doubleheader this evening.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Tonight

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• You don't need to be able to absorb a tremendous amount of the mystical kundalini to realize God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Needs, Able

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• You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Path, Rama

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• Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.

  Richard Rohr

  Moving, Grace, Half

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• Knowing her we will know that we are her divine children in a relationship of complete, unconditionally loving intimacy; we will know that nature is holy in all its sacred particulars because it is everywhere vibrant with her light and her love; we will know that we have come to this earth not, as some patriarchal mystical traditions have implied, to escape it but to embrace it fully, not to 'transcend' it but to arrive here in full presence, gratitude and love.

  Andrew Harvey

  Mother, Gratitude, Children

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

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