60 Mystical Quotes for You to Enjoy

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that. John Lurie

Experience Late Late Teens Teens Spent Mystical Had Years Trying Recapture Early Early 20s

The thing I find really special in performance is that there is this slightly mystical thing that takes over when you're responding to a crowd and engaging in people's imaginations collectively in a room. I've always thought that one of the most incredible things about being alive is going to see some kind of performance like that. Johnny Flynn

You People Thought Incredible Slightly Alive Responding Kind Collectively Find See Some About Crowd Mystical Takes Performance Over Like Most Always Going Being Room Really Engaging Special Thing Things Imaginations

For me, acting goes to a special place; it's almost mystical. You have to let go of what you think is good; it's a jump into trust, and trying to reach without wanting too much. Juliette Binoche

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

You Try Every Think Point Mystical Performer Obvious Practical Make Does However Get Tune Tunes Choice Thing

The Lowcountry traditionally is a logical place where the big ships stopped and brought new things in from the ocean, and the islands have a mystical tradition. It is such a visual place, too, with these iconic villages with the Spanish moss and the village and historical homes and the coast. Margaret Stohl

Logical Big Ocean New Things Too Visual Brought Mystical New Moss Islands Tradition Historical Ships Stopped Where Place Spanish Iconic Coast Village Villages Homes Things

The motivation to do anything - like change your entire life around - doesn't just come from some magical, mystical place within you. Action is both the effect of motivation and the cause of it. Mark Manson

Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Suffering Humanity Long Think Thinking Pretty Magical Mystical How Led Survive Diseases Controlled Just To Survive Barely

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. Nicolas Roeg

Me Mysterious Remains Mystical Film

It was honestly like 'Annie.' One day I was alone in a cold, dark Eastern European orphanage, and then the next day I was in an enchanted, mystical land known as Walmart. Oksana Masters

Alone Day Dark Cold Honestly One Day Eastern Mystical Annie Like Known Enchanted Walmart Land Then Next European Orphanage

The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that. Peter Coyote

Time Me First Feeling Believe Something Mystical Read Because First Time Audience Fresh Being Little Really Engaged Special Fully

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it 'Le Milieu Divin,' but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Life Spiritual Book Long Preaching Nothing Down Living Finally Philosophy Possible Minimum Spiritual Life Mystical Write Put Simply Call Sort Am Been Esoteric Being Decided Mean Explicit Teaching Milieu Include Careful

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Myself Game Science Christ Matters Conviction Too Say Possessed Running Find All Things Able More Only Through Mystical Absorb True Look Am Caught Up Get Little Much Really Things

The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age. Pope Benedict XVI

Age Passion Christ Church Sacrifice Every Our Members Embraces Mystery Mystical Lord Continuing His Blood Turn Body

Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world. Rachel Kushner

Writing World Feeling Difficult Appropriate Way Angle Mystical Almost Like Well Does Doing Very Times Goes Frustrating Produce Really Meant Appalling Unique Satisfaction Thing

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical. Richard Owen

Relationship Russian Vodka Mystical Bottle Almost Between

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next. Richard Russo

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel. Rose Tremain

Spiritual Me Think Minds Drawn More Only Potential Remain Mysterious Mystical Scheme True Perhaps Most True Potential Always Importantly Unexplained Any Human Human Beings Realise Which Them Beings Include Novel Things Fraction

Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available. Sam Harris

Spiritual People Problem Spirituality Elsewhere Consider Synonymous Fraud Atheists Seem Mental Mental Illness Only Mystical Argued Mysticism Had Self-Deception Talk Terms Fellow Because Experiences Which Available Many Illness Conscious Millions Millions Of People

Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see. Sharon Salzberg

Construction Experience Will Meditation Others Secret See Able Magical Something Trophy Through Attain Mystical Particular Foreign Least Proudly Effort Accumulate May Experiences Hold Them Then Display Desire Two

I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but when I watch 'Game of Thrones' on On Demand, I'm glued to the set. It's mystical and addictive. Tyrion Lannister, that's my man. Steve Harvey

Game Man Attention Span Addictive TV Mystical Attention Demand Nod Glued Off Span Much Game Of Thrones Watch Playoffs Set Basketball

Mystical Quotes

No more mystical quotes