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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 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 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 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
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 coincidence-in-life vices
All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course. Tom Stoppard
opposites anxiety forever
Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever. Alan Watts
opposites play effort
But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites. Alan Watts
opposites spirituality holy
A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites. Alan Watts
opposites jumping risk
I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action. Akshay Kumar
opposites errors obedience
To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience. Aiden Wilson Tozer
opposites fabulous feels
You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous. Chita Rivera
opposites cities london
A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes. China Mieville
opposites facts stories
Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite. David Sedaris
opposites years people
People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite. David R. Brower
heaven world difficulty
This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another. Charles Caleb Colton
heaven links golden
Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven. Charles Dickens
heaven suits burden
Heaven suits the back to the burden. Charles Dickens
heaven balance floating
Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour. Charles Dickens
heaven joy sorrow
The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth. Charles Spurgeon
heaven his-love earth
Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me. Charles Spurgeon
heaven trying paper
One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works. Charles Spurgeon
heaven wish ifs
If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself. Charles Spurgeon
heaven mind rags
The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him. Charles Spurgeon