Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Viola

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.

Edgar Mitchell

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.

Aldous Huxley

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.

Tom Stoppard

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

John Stott

...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.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them.

Logan Pearsall Smith

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

Thomas Merton

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

William James

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.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.

Clint Eastwood

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.

Christina Sims

The are just hopping ready to get there.

Ed Pinckney

That was a long time ago. I'm ready for another one.

Mike Jaskie

We have a lot of work to do to get ready for November.

Brent Faurote

We have two left, and they have to be ready to go tomorrow.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

Bob Consalvo

We've got our gold-plated shovels shined and ready for the groundbreaking.

Tom Slater

We're very young, with 17 newcomers, so it's especially important to play a challenging non-conference schedule to get us ready for the SEC season.

Carl Sagan

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I lose you, I lose everything

Becca Fitzpatrick

I'm yours, if you'll have me.

Darren Shan

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

David Mitchell

If your words're true, they're armed.

David Sarnoff

Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.

David Puttnam

If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it.

Catherine Booth

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

Alan Watts

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.