These Mystical quotes will inspire you. Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute but may refer to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or spiritual meaning. It may also refer to the attainment of insight in ultimate or hidden truths, and to human transformation supported by various practices and experiences.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging mystical quotes, mystical sayings, and mystical proverbs.
Inspirational Mystical Quotes
- “Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.” ~ Tom Robbins
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“There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it or not, whether we accept it or not, mystical experience is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate discovery. We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom. Existence is a summons to the eternal journey of the sage – the sage we all are, if only we could see.” ~ Wayne Teasdale , Mystical quotes about love
- “It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.” ~ Caroline Myss
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“That the world is, is the mystical.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Mystical powers develop primarily through the raising of the kundalini. The Kundalini is a type of energy that exists within all things. It’s possible to pull that energy, to mass it, to transmit it.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It’s close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.” ~ Elie Wiesel
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“The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.” ~ Marianne Williamson
- “When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.” ~ Walt Whitman , Mystical quotes astronomer
- “There’s a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It’s not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality.” ~ Marianne Williamson
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“The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it’s a desire to be possessed.” ~ Colin Wilson
- “God does not play dice [with the universe].
[Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]” ~ Albert Einstein - “Nature is mythical and mystical always and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.” ~ Henry David Thoreau” Mystical experiences (unlike scientific conclusions) cannot be communicated from one person to another. Philosophers and little children are continually amazed that we, unaccountably, find ourselves in a somewhat intelligible world.” ~ Sam Keen , Mystical quotes about nature
- “Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the classical sense, fully enlightened. It means that you have mastered a few aspects of the mystical kundalini. That’s all it means.” ~ Frederick Lenz
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“It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it” ~ Jimmy Buffett
- “As you absorb more mystical kundalini, you will able to perform a few minor miracles. As you do this, you run a great risk of egotism. Some people handle it well; some don’t.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “There is this school of thought that says the usage of all mystical and occult powers is bad. I find that thought is usually propounded by people who don’t have any powers. It’s kind of a sour grapes attitude.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God’s thoughts, the rest are details.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
- “The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms – this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Blake said that the body was the soul’s prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the ‘windows of the soul.’ When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.” ~ Jim Morrison
- “I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.” ~ Jean Houston
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“Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.” ~ Vanna Bonta
- “The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.” ~ Laozi
- “The Land of Dreams, that mystical realm, where the oddest of visions appear, come wander through scenes of joyful peace, or stampeded through nightmares of fear. Dare we open those secret doors, down dusty paths of mind, in long-forgotten corners, what memories we’ll find. Who rules o’er the Kingdom of Night, where all is not what it seems? ‘Tis I, the Weaver of Tales, for I am the Dreamer of Dreams!” ~ Brian Jacques , Mystical quotes about peace
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“There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.” ~ John Smith
- “The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.” ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
- “Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it….Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.” ~ Carl Jung
- “While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.” ~ Brennan Manning , Mystical quotes about life
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“Literature is a mystical place for me. It’s not dry. It’s where miracles happen.” ~ John Darnielle
- “Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.” ~ Arthur Eddington
- “I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead – just take a chunk of lead – and they could turn lead into gold.” ~ Will Smith
- “The future, for me, is romantic, I don’t understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you don’t know yet, something you can dream about, something unknown and mystical. That I find fascinating.” ~ Raf Simons
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“Most of us can agree there is nothing more special, mysterious, mystical, powerful, and important than life!” ~ Bryan Kest
- “Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic that nature sustains humanity as humanity must, in turn, sustain nature. Rationality alone, however, cannot be our guide in the task of restoring our environment. A spiritual connection to nature must inspire the emotional commitment that is the yin, complementing the yang of intellectual understanding.” ~ Carl von Essen
- “The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It’s the artist’s responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.” ~ Patti Smith
- “Love is the most universal, the most tremendous, and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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“The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all it is. It is not a socialist seed. It is not a capitalist seed. It is not a mystical seed. It is not a determinist seed. It is simply a statement. We can be free. After that it’s all choice and chance.” ~ Karl Hess
- “The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the Sower, of the need for our loving, mortified reception and cultivation in our hearts and souls of the seeds and roots of the supernatural gifts and virtues necessary for progress in the ascetical/mystical ascent of our souls toward union with God and with the divine will for Creation and Kingdom” ~ John Stokes
- “Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself when realization has tinctured and transmuted all attitudes and opinions. A wise man is one who has experienced wisdom, wisdom in this sense being a mystical experience.” ~ Manly Hall
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“The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.” ~ Laozi
- “The night comes stealing o’er me,
And clouds are on the sea;
While the wavelets rustle before me
With a mystical melody.” ~ Heinrich Heine - “There is a way to open up the chakras, there is a mystical way. But if you do that, you’ll get yourself into very hot water, and it’s ultimately slower.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.” ~ Salman Rushdie
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“All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.” ~ O.R. Melling
- “Death is the mother of beauty, mystical,
Within whose burning bosom we devise
Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.” ~ Wallace Stevens , Mystical quotes about death - “I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.” ~ Ram Dass
- “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.” ~ Edgar Mitchell
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“Science, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.” ~ Mitch Horowitz
- “The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don’t seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it’s because we’re engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.” ~ Lewis H. Lapham
- “People who think they can just do a non-stop flight to mystical, non-dual thinking, to get it out without going through the process, are usually not right. That’s airy-fairy thinking. They have to wait until they are hurt themselves, or they are cheated, or lied to or betrayed, and they will see that their non-dual thinking is not tested, or truly a gift of the spirit. It’s simply fuzzy thinking.” ~ Richard Rohr
- “You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it’s because I really don’t know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.” ~ Richard Russo
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“If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- “Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor, the consciousness of the individual is like a flame that burns through the night. It is not the same flame over time, yet neither is it another flame.” ~ Marilyn Ferguson
- “God’s truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves. Formerly barren mental lands spring to new life through the planting of spiritual seeds.” ~ Marianne Williamson
- “It seems to me that when we listen to the Muslim mystics as they talk about Jesus and their love for Jesus, I must say, it’s a lot closer to New Testament Christianity than a lot of the Christians that I hear. In other words, if we are looking for common ground, can we find it in mystical spirituality, even if we cannot theologically agree, Can we pray together in such a way that we connect with a God that transcends our theological differences?” ~ Tony Campolo
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“Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy.” ~ Arnaud Desjardins
- “In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that his nation is great; that a German as such is superior to a Belgian as such; an Englishman, to an Irishman; an American, to a Mexican: merely because the first-named countries are in each case more powerful than their comparatives. And people who have no individual stature whatever are willing to accept this poisonous nonsense because it gives them a sense of importance without the trouble of any personal effort.” ~ Felix Morley
- “Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.” ~ Katherine Anne Porter
- “It is extraordinary how much you are theirs, and how little they are yours. The child grows inside you and there is something mystical and mythical in that, but then you actually see that you are nothing more than the box in which they come. There is this total person, already formed, themselves.” ~ Glenda Jackson
