Mystical Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

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

This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me.

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.

Neither is detrimental, but the mystical kundalini is a bit more raucous.

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.