Mystic Quotes

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

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.

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.

The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the way.

There are moments of oneness with the Beloved, absolutely ecstasy and bliss. That is nothingness. And this nothingness loves you, responds to you, fulfills you utterly and yet there is nothing there. You flow out like a river without diminishing. This is the great mystical experience, the great ecstasy.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

...The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people.

How could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in the beauty and the awe-inspiring mystery of the science that's out there that we haven't discovered yet, that there are scientific explanations for phenomena that we call mystical because we don't know any better.

When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.

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.

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear.

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

A true magician must not undertake anything regarding which he is not thoroughly informed.

It's two things: it's totally impersonal and it's totally personal, simultaneously. That's the nature of the mystical experience of life. Everything about life is impersonal, but you have a personal experience. And the bridge between the personal and the impersonal is called prayer.

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

I was you and never knew it.

That the world is, is the mystical.

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.