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mystical-experiences solitude visionaries
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. Bill Viola
mystical-experiences world physics
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
mystical-experiences opposites heaven
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. Aldous Huxley
mystical-experiences people firsts
...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. John Stott
mystical-experiences boredom bored
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience. Logan Pearsall Smith
mystical-experiences ready ifs
If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
mystical-experiences coincidence-in-life vices
All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course. Tom Stoppard
mystical-experiences perception kind
The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception. Thomas Merton
mystical-experiences natural significance
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. William James
boredom burns enthusiasm fire plague worth
When fire burns the enthusiasm is worth seeing. People, who are enthusiastic and happy, lethargy and boredom never plague them. Rig Veda
boredom made ennui
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice. Charles Caleb Colton
boredom judging fool
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom. David Mitchell
boredom enemy television
The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability. David Nevins
boredom towns news
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
boredom indifference contempt
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. Charlaine Harris
boredom boring amusing
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. Charles Baudelaire
boredom speech speak
Speak on, but be not over-tedious. William Shakespeare
boredom problem
Boredom has always been a problem. Edmund Hillary
bored chapter fun last next point time turning year
When you retire, you take time away, you don't want to have anything to do with tennis. After two years of having fun and not doing much in the sport, you get a little bored and want to know what's the next chapter in your life. Last year was a turning point 'What am I going to do next?' and I had to make a decision. Pete Sampras
boredom burns enthusiasm fire plague worth
When fire burns the enthusiasm is worth seeing. People, who are enthusiastic and happy, lethargy and boredom never plague them.
bored bored-to-death bleak-house
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself. Charles Dickens
boredom made ennui
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.
bored consumer easily fact product substitute
The fact is that you don't want the consumer to get bored with your product or they'll easily substitute it with something else.
bored children excited stood talked
When I'm with the children I get a feel for what I think they would get really excited about. If I stood up and talked about aerodynamics they would be bored to death.
bored course create designed designers endure games inside intensely obstacle people pile player players work worried
The way games are designed is you create a story, and then you create an obstacle course inside that story, and the player has to endure it to see more. So it's artificial. Game designers are so intensely worried about people getting bored that they pile on busy work for players to do. Tom Bissell
boredom judging fool
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
bored cafes watches
I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer. David Suchet