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mystical-experiences solitude visionaries
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time. Bill Viola
mystical-experiences world physics
It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That's a 20th century phenomenon also. Edgar Mitchell
mystical-experiences opposites heaven
Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience. Aldous Huxley
mystical-experiences people firsts
...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. John Stott
mystical-experiences ready ifs
If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
mystical-experiences boredom bored
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience. Logan Pearsall Smith
mystical-experiences perception kind
The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception. Thomas Merton
mystical-experiences coincidence-in-life vices
All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course. Tom Stoppard
mystical-experiences natural significance
The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one. William James
opposites borders ends
at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered. Cecelia Ahern
opposites chinese france
What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite. Bernard Arnault
opposites suffering causes
Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
opposites people world
In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line. Don Bluth
opposites facts stories
Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite. David Sedaris
opposites years people
People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite. David R. Brower
opposites disrespectful reason
Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason. Bryan Callen
opposites justice poverty
The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. Bryan Stevenson
opposites people becoming-an-adult
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite. Chad Harbach
heaven soul desire
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire. C. S. Lewis
heaven may ifs
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going. Bette Davis
heaven glimpse courageous
The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven. Anthony Storr
heaven way pity
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse. Bill Vaughan
heaven going-to-heaven christianity
Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.
heaven way hardest
Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.
heaven
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens. Bertrand Russell
heaven looks speak
[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
heaven logic study
All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.