Top 100 Mystic Quotes
#1. No man can die unless Jesus opens the mystic door of death.
J.C. Ryle
#2. Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.
Bernie Siegel
#4. There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic in motion, if that's what you are, don't seek out there; seek inside.
Rumi
#5. Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.
Jorge Luis Borges
#6. The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for.
Dennis Lehane
#7. I'd drink your blood if I could and hook you into every memory inside me, every heartbreak, frame of reference, temporary triumph, petty defeat, mystic moment of surrender.
Anne Rice
#8. A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.
G.K. Chesterton
#9. Two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall
dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.
William Ralph Inge
#10. Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art ... It is a privilege to be alive in this time when we can choose to take part in the self-healing of our world.
Joanna Macy
#11. The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
Anthony De Mello
#12. Not so long afterwards it was broad day light in Iluji for the first time ever.
Ray Anyasi
#13. Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
Thomas Carlyle
#14. I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae ... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.
Anais Nin
#15. I am a mystic. I believe in hearing the inaudible and touching the intangible and seeing the invisible.
Adam Clayton Powell III
#16. Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?
Marshall McLuhan
#17. Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee?
Hartley Coleridge
#18. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.
Ayn Rand
#19. We are not separate from spirit, we are within it." -Plotinus, ancient Greek Sage & Mystic
Sara Rider
#20. I have recommended you the dignity of skepticism: yet here I am, prowling around the Absolute. Technique of contradiction? Remember, rather, what Flaubert said: "I am a mystic and I believe in nothing".
Emil Cioran
#21. Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.
Carl Sandburg
#22. I realized at that instant just how surely the affirmation of demons or the summoning of Satan somehow can affirm the reality of their mystic antithesis - the God of Abraham.
Dan Simmons
#23. There's no matter here you can't re-matter into love.
Laurie Perez
#24. A mystic is one who has dropped all dreams, who has thrown away this mirror of the mind and who looks directly into life, without any medium interfering. Then he sees the eternal progression, then in a single moment he sees all eternity, and in a single atom he can see the whole reflected.
Osho
#25. The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an "abomination unto the Lord." This, by the way, does not conflict with the rules of Yoga. That kind of suppression is comparable to the restrictions in athletic training, or diet in sickness.
Aleister Crowley
#26. Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses ... I'm so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the moon.
Mark Waid
#27. What do you mean? How does he look at me?
I don't know. It's like you're a chocolate ice- cream and he doesn't have a spoon.
Catherine Anderson
#28. This relationship, often called the Golden mean, has been discovered and rediscovered at various times in history as a unique proportion believed to have both aesthetic and mystic significance. That the Egyptians knew of it and used it seems certain.
John Pile
#29. Through you, I see me. Through me, I see you.
Tehya Sky
#30. I have much power. In the days to come I will grow stronger, and I would hate for you to find yourself on the wrong side of that which cannot be avoided." "Hyperbole and mystic aggrandizement, you mean?
Katie MacAlister
#31. But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.
Anais Nin
#32. Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core.
Rumi
#33. Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans.
Joseph Campbell
#34. Live what you love and what you love will fill your life.
Jodi Livon
#35. These Stepsons tread where mortals don't belong, some of us think. They seek out battle high above their station. Who knows what powers may yet take them and their mystic allies to task, bring them their comeuppance?
Janet Morris
#36. A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.
Lawrence Kushner
#37. Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.
Neil Gaiman
#38. The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.
Richard Rohr
#39. It's quite common for a Sufi mystic to cry in ecstasy that he's neither a Jew, a Christian, nor a Muslim. He is at home equally in a synagogue, a mosque, a temple, or a church because when one's glimpsed the divine, one's left these man-made distinctions behind.
Karen Armstrong
#40. That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?
Peter Washington
#41. I lost everything I had, but in the process I found myself." - Rumi, 13th-century Persian poet and mystic.
Rahul Deokar
#42. Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail the sky cracked its poems in naked wonder, that the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze, leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder
Bob Dylan
#43. Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded.
Max Heindel
#44. The most important truth we tell is the truth we tell ourselves.
Tehya Sky
#45. 'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.
Clint Eastwood
#46. Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
Elbert Hubbard
#48. Don't be ridiculous! Mystic arts be damned, a dog with machine guns is always problematic.
Jonathan Hickman
#49. I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't know, overpowered by his presence. Like he's a very mystic person. He's older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff.
Franka Potente
#50. As Christian mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once said: "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." He was right. If we recognize the soul lesson, we can grow beyond suffering, and there is no stress in this state of understanding.
Brian L. Weiss
#51. I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.
Dan Aykroyd
#52. Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.
Jan Morris
#53. Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.
James Allen
#54. We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.
Brooks Atkinson
#55. But if I have to deal with another stupid elf and their mystic crap I swear I'm going to shoot them all in their stupid inbred hick faces and burn their trailer park down.
Larry Correia
#56. Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked.
Noel Coward
#57. A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
#58. I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
Fernando Pessoa
#59. People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?
Julia Roberts
#60. When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.
Albert Hofmann
#61. And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.
Stephen King
#62. The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic double death with its ritual.
John Steinbeck
#63. She smiled, and his dead heart warmed.
One smile would never be enough.
Lisa Kessler
#64. Shadows can only exist where there is light.
Tehya Sky
#65. Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
Joseph Conrad
#66. A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.
Frances Parkinson Keyes
#67. I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
Robert Wyatt
#68. ...great eager mists flock to heaven laden with lore, and oceanward eyes on the rocks see only a mystic whiteness, as if the cliff's rim were the rim of all earth, and the solemn bells of buoys tolled free in the aether of faery.
H.P. Lovecraft
#69. God,
is there no faith left?
He has not told. I
would not know Him if I saw Him.
Beth Morey
#70. A mystic is someone who aches for, continually searches for, direct contact with God; contact not mediated through the emotions or intellect, but a full melding of spirit and will, believing that this is not only possible but is the entire point of life in this world.
Doug Ferguson
#71. To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
Beck
#72. The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within.
Fritjof Capra
#73. Shprintzl Rudashevsky's wide face takes on a philosophical, even mystic, blankness. She looks like she's wetting her pants and enjoying the warmth.
Michael Chabon
#74. I explained that often when we revealed ourselves to mortals we drove them mad - for we were unnatural beings, and yet we did not know anything about the existence of God or the Devil. In sum, we were like a religious vision without revelation. A mystic experience, but without a core of truth.
Anne Rice
#75. You can be a fanatical millennialist religious mystic, and you are, in a certain way, not outside of ideology. Your position can be that of perfectly describing the data and nonetheless your point is ideological.
Slavoj Zizek
#76. The mystic sees God in everything; the scientist, atoms; the poet, poetry.
Marty Rubin
#77. A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.
Umberto Eco
#78. Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
Milan Kundera
#80. The flowers, the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers are not the flowers of life, but people, yes people are the true flowers of life, and it has been a most precious pleasure to have temporarily strolled in your garden.
Lord Buckley
#81. Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth!
Gerald Massey
#82. The difference between poets and mystics ... The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it's true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.
Neal Stephenson
#83. It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted, on the curtained window-panes of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes and harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#84. Sacred Activism is the fusion of the mystic's passion for God with the activist's passion for justice, creating a third fire, which is the burning sacred heart that longs to help, preserve, and nurture every living thing.
Andrew Harvey
#85. The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
Joseph Campbell
#86. The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
Bruce Nauman
#87. We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss.
Alexander Lowen
#89. If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I've got it.
I'm a mystic, but only in my body,
My soul is simple and doesn't think.
Alberto Caeiro
#90. Lois looked edible, and you know it was tender all the way through, a kind of mystic combination of filet mignon and a Georgia peach aching for the tongue and ready to bleed gold.
Robert Penn Warren
#91. Know this: If you are afraid of starting over, it means you have not yet begun.
Tehya Sky
#92. The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
Muhammad Iqbal
#93. To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
Thomas Carlyle
#94. In any case, the life of a drunk is presumably livelier than that of the ordinary well-behaved citizen. And then - I read that once somewhere - the life of a hedonist is the best preparation for becoming a mystic.
People like St. Augustine are always the ones that become visionaries.
Hermann Hesse
#95. Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?
Florence Earle Coates
#96. Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.
D.H. Lawrence
#97. My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
Hans Hofmann
#98. An act of mastery is mastery itself.
Tehya Sky
#99. It is only those who do not know who wander the paths. A blind eye and a stout heart create a true wanderer. Those who seek the paths do so in vain; only those who can see deep might hope to wander.
Mary-Jean Harris
#100. The complexity and efficiency of the physicist's technical apparatus is matched, if not surpassed, by that of the mystic's consciousness - both physical and spiritual - in deep meditation.
Fritjof Capra
