#mystical

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...You see I believe in that stuff to: yoga and mystical powers. I once knew a man who could kill himself on command. Can you believe that? . . . Why do you laugh? . . . Believe it! By will of his own mind, he could make his heart stop beating for good' My neighbor poised and looked seriously at me, searching in my eyes. '...You laugh!' he repeated once more… 'You laugh, but he was a master at it! He could commit suicide at his own will!' Indeed, hearty laughter streamed through my nose. 'Could he do it perpetually?' I asked. 'Perpetually...?' My neighbor rubbed his waxy chin. 'I mean, is he still able to do it?' 'I’m not sure I understand.' 'Well? Then is he dead…?!' My neighbor's puzzled face slowly began to transform into a look of realization. 'But sir,' he said, 'Of course he’s dead! I mean to say... this man could kill himself on command, you see. And you don’t come back from the dead!' The two of us found ourselves crossing to the door so I could let my visitor out. I slapped him with friendliness on the shoulder. 'No, you don’t come back from the dead,' I agreed.


Roman Payne


#death #funny #mind-powers #mystical-powers #mysticism

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.


William Robertson Smith


#degree #died #foreshadowed #his #idea

I used unexpectedly to experience a consciousness of the presence of God, or such a kind that I could not possibly doubt that He was within me or that I was wholly engulfed in Him. This was in no sense a vision: I believe it is called mystical theology. The soul is suspended in such a way that it seems to be completely outside itself. The will loves; the memory, I think, is almost lost; while the understanding, I believe, thought it is not lost, does not reason—I mean that it does not work, but is amazed at the extent of all it can understand; for God wills it to realize that it understands nothing of what His Majesty represents to it.


Teresa of Ávila


#mystical-theology #mysticism #prayer #experience

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.


Aberjhani


#dreams #faith #inspiration #inspirational #metaphysics

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.


Edward de Bono


#creativity #idea #mystical #nurtured #practised

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.


Robertson Davies


#between #canada #country #desire #extraordinary

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