Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Logan Pearsall Smith

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

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.

Thomas Merton

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

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.

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Wallace Stevens

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Samuel Dash

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

Samuel Beckett

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Salman Rushdie

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.

Lamar Odom

Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

Mark Krikorian

There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration.

Leonardo da Vinci

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

John Ashcroft

I think it is always very important for us to take those kinds of requests very seriously,

Robert Sanchez

He killed everyone with kindness at all times.

David Bowens

I think it's an even more macho thing to come out and talk about that kind of stuff.

Corey Dillon

It could get tiresome, ... It kind of wore on me.

David Sanborn

I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's that used pop production values, but instrumental music; like improvising with R&B kinds of song structures, but with improvisation in them, and pop production values.

Jerry Sanders

I think the problem is you can't just kind of reveal things,

Pat Riley

I think you're going to see that kind of series.

Pat Thomas

I think we performed pretty well. We're kinda tiny but mighty. For every person on this team there is talent, but there just is not a lot of depth.

Tony Amonte

I think we're the only ones going to be there with kids. But we kinda have to with the baby.