Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Viola

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.

Katie Featherston

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely.

Edgar Mitchell

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.

Aldous Huxley

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.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is

Nelly Furtado

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

John Stott

...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 Smith

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

Don McLean

American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening; a mystical trip into my past.

Annie Lennox

Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

David Gray

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Bruce Springsteen

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Bob Weir

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

Arthur Honegger

Music is geometry in time.

Charles Spurgeon

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Boethius

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.