Top 164 Esoteric Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we move from the exoteric to the esoteric, from religion to mysticism.
Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.
David Lynch is very esoteric. He doesn't explain anything.
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation.
When you write about esoteric things, it can be way out there.
You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.
The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.
For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.
"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.
An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment is not just a ceremony.
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.
The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.
Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the
body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul
is ancient, the stuff of stars.
A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.
In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.
We have to make the bureaucracy accountable to the people. It is not something esoteric, it can be done.
I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.
In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive.
I suppose that when I started to play the lute it was fairly esoteric.
From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.
My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.
Abstraction is an esoteric language.
Anyone who’s ever put a stamp on an envelope or a note on their refrigerator knows what it’s like to make a collage. There’s no esoteric technique.
The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
I know the music I hear and what I want. But sometimes I have to let that go and not try to be so esoteric.
The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.
I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
When you have friends that are Muslim, Jewish, gay, from any marginalized group, you realize that they are so much more than this esoteric talking point.
Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.
I've always liked the idea of merging esoteric art cinema with down-and-dirty exploitation films.
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.
I feel happy working in the low-budget realm, doing stuff that is a little bit more esoteric, and personal.
I'm after something far more esoteric than a virginal shag. Though, if you'd like, darlin', I'm certainly up for the task.
Karma is not a cop-out. The esoteric meaning of karma is that you are who you are, because of what you have done and who you have been.
I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.
All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings.
Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has impelled them into the arcane and esoteric.
It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.
You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.
Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting.
We had a certain kind of material that was not dangerously esoteric.
The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.
Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.
I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.
We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric.
A lot of times, especially when it comes to political debates, people get caught up in esoteric statistics. So the realest thing I can do that has nothing to do with numbers is tell you my personal experience.
When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.
Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.
When yoga is understood in its totality, it is neither a form of exercise, nor is it an esoteric philosophy or religion; it is a practical and comprehensive science for realizing life's ultimate aims.
Most teachers of self-discovery have two types of students. They have students they deal with in a more exoteric way than the esoteric students. Esoteric truths are presented to usually a smaller group of students.
I'm never trying to make something esoteric; it just happens.
Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.
When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.
I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.
