#mystic

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

— Stanislav Grof

#being #entire #even #ever #existence

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#kind #mystic #nature #observer #prayer

I have become so accustomed to think “scientifically” that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged and who has already become reconciled to the thought that the same fate awaits him. ↗

— P.D. Ouspensky

#death

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#mystical #mysticism #religion #religion

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#bourne #city #destination #eternal #even

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready. ↗

— Mary Garden

#could #did #done #eastern #even

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. ↗

— David Lynch

#depict #doorway #flat #movies #mystical

I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly. ↗

— Charles Manson

#got #i #kind #magical #mystical

My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#always #because #came #challenging #cloudy

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#body #considered #developed #five #fully