Top 295 Mystic Quotes & Sayings

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno.

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made.

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear.

The tonality of the flute almost has a mystic element to me.

In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

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.

Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.

Creativity has three layers; the ultimate is the mystic: he lives in a climate of creativity. The poet, once in a while, brings some treasures from the beyond; the scientist, also very rarely, but whenever he can visit the ultimate he brings something precious to the world. But one thing is certain - mystic, scientist or poet, whatsoever comes into this world comes from the beyond. To bring the beyond is creativity. To bring the beyond into the known is creativity. To help God to be manifested in some form is creativity.

For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy, it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived. For the mystical practice of an Indian, Persian, Chinese, or Neo-Platonic mystic it is a matter of indifference whether Rama, Buddha, Laotse, or Porphyrius are myths or not. The mystic has no personal relation to them. It is not here a question of somebody telling me the truth which of myself I cannot find, but of my finding an access to the depths of the world in the depths of my soul.

Love will push every button, try every faith, challenge every strength, trigger every weakness, mock every value, and then leave you there to die. And then you will be ready to be born at last, to become a soul who is strong enough to take love on. You'll be a romantic mystic who has achieved the elements: you endured the flames of love, you were baptized in the waters of love, and now you can soar like only a mystic can through the skies and skin of a lover's heart.

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims - as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs. He wants to deal with men by means of faith and force - he finds no satisfaction in their consent if he must earn it by means of facts and reason.

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

My style for the moment is modern mystic priestess.

You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

In the Art, Science, Philosophy and Mystic rests the temple of Wisdom.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

A lot of sitcoms don't last more than four series. You could say it's mystic.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.

A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the same time with a kind of humility. So when you see that combination of calm self-confidence, certitude, and humility all at the same time you have the basis for mysticism in general.

Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and this recognition is susceptible to rational discussion. The mystic has reasons for what he believes, and these reasons are empirical. The roiling mystery of the world can be analyzed with concepts (this is science), or it can be experienced free of concepts (this is myticism). Religion is nothing more than bad concepts held in place of good ones for all time. It is the denial-at once full of hope and full of fear-of the vastitude of human ignorance.

We all have a hidden mystic quality if we can learn and trust to tap into that power.

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished by it. This mystic quality of color should likewise find expression in a work of art.

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.