Mystical Quotes - Page 16

• Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Roots, Religion, Enthusiasm

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• They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they clairvoyantly saw were going to be born after the destruction of Atlantis

  Frederick Lenz

  Civilization, Meditation Practice, Atlantis

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for the ideal, and desire for the soul's mystical fire. Self-satisfaction because of some material accomplishment will never be for me. The truly great are those who quest for better spiritual selves.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Spiritual, Fire, Self

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Awakening, Strange

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• The mystical kundalini is very different. It is a much more intense transformative energy which, when used, allows a person to make tremendous spiritual leaps in a short period of time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Energy

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• For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.

  Jane Goodall

  Nature, Powerful, Joy

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• I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started mining again is, for lack of a better word, magic. It's the way you can brush up against the inexplicable and the mystical.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Thinking, Magic

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

  Thomas Merton

  Mystical Experiences, Perception, Artistic

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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• Occasionally at a Center Meeting, not that often, every couple of months, I'll break down and demonstrate a little mystical kundalini; but not that often, simply because it wouldn't be that effective.

  Frederick Lenz

  Couple, Buddhism, Down And

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• Flyfishing, which has a vaguely mystical aura, is a lot like work. I'm a frenetic flyfisherman. I wade up and down streams, looking for good spots, usually falling and breaking some piece of equipment. Or I stand still and work myself into a frenzy about what fly I should use. I love fishing, but it has never given me a moments peace.

  James P. Gorman

  Fall, Sea, Fishing

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• I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Beautiful, Thinking, Touching

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from what drives evolution to strange insights and mystical experiences through the ages. The machine was built as an attempt to investigate and amplify them.

  James P. Hogan

  Thinking, Mystical Experiences, Age

  James P. Hogan (1997). “Paths to Otherwhere”, Pocket Books

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• Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Power, Law, Justice

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

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• Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.

  Aldous Huxley

  Jesus, Men, Names

  "Do What You Will" by Aldous Huxley, (p. 3), 1928.

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• Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism; and with its traditionalistic, anti-intellectual, and often mystical propensities it will never, except in short periods of disillusionment, appeal to the young and all those others who believe that some changes are desirable if this world is to become a better place.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Believe, Intellectual, Elements

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, 1944.

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• When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.

  John Calvin

  Holiness, Unions, Remember

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.17, Baker Books

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• That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.

  King James I

  Kings, Weakness, Thrones

  Speech in the Star Chamber, June 1616.

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• It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Intuition, Cover Ups

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.377, Spectra

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• As an actor, I started using dreams more, which is not mystical or anything like that. I just found that I've been using that as a tool to give me another point of view towards the work. It's often surprising but really helpful.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Dream, Views, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• There's something mystical and wonderful about being in the room with the actual live performer s on stage that works. In film, it doesn't work so you're dependent on a great director to keep the thing moving along.

  Marshall Brickman

  Moving, Directors, Rooms

  Source: collider.com

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• The wonder of prayer is rediscovered in who we're speaking to. Prayer is a mystical event by which we get to talk to the Creator of all-the One who fashioned our world with a few words-knowing that God not only listens but answers.

  Margaret Feinberg

  Prayer, Our World, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Jan 29, 2017

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• Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations... "and it is on these that history is built.

  Lloyd deMause

  Psychology, Accepting, Rational

  Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press

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• The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.

  Adi Da

  Religious, League, Done

  Adi Da Samraj (1980). “Scientific proof of the existence of God will soon be announced by the White House!: prophetic wisdom about the myths and idols of mass culture and popular religious cultism, the new priesthood of scientific and political materialism, and the secrets of enlightenment hidden in the body of man”, Dawn Horse Pr

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• Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.

  William James

  Mother, Lying, Mystical Experiences

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• Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.

  Nyanaponika Thera

  Simple, Average, Achievement

  Nyanaponika Thera (2005). “The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: Satipaṭṭhāna : a Handbook of Mental Training Based on the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, with an Anthology of Relevant Texts Translated from the Pali and Sanskrit”, p.25, Buddhist Publication Society

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