Quotes having the keyword Mystic
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
by Basil Bunting (Poet, British , born in 1900) keywords: anything, confusing, confusion, destructive, else, exhilaration, explain, infectious, lifetime, moment, mystic, poetry, psychology, purchases, terms , try Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
by Joseph Conrad (Novelist, Polish , born in 1857) keywords: become, conscious, detached, feelings, impossible, informed, love, mystic, only, our, resignation, sham , which I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
by Vincent D'Onofrio (Actor, American , born in 1959) keywords: actor, after, character, choice, eclectic, go, kind, made, mainstream, more, mystic, pizza, route, stuff , young My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
by Hans Hofmann (Artist, German , born in 1880) keywords: accordance, aim, create, deepest, emanate, experience, insight, into, life, light, luminous, mystic, nature, open, painting, pulsating , surfaces The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
by Hans Hofmann (Artist, German , born in 1880) keywords: color, comes, experience, mystic, realm, through, us, visually, whole , world Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
by Aldous Huxley (Novelist, English , born in 1894) keywords: after, along, become, cutting, desire, desires, far, god, heart, his, hunger, intensely, learn, man, may, mind, must, mystic, obstacle, off, passively, road, soul, stillness, strength, thirst, travel, uncontrolled, would , yet The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
by Muhammad Iqbal (Poet, Pakistani , born in 1877) keywords: another, concepts, entity, experience, god, having, immediacy, just, know, mathematical, means, mutually, mystic, objects, other, reference, related, simply , system Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
by Soren Kierkegaard (Philosopher, Danish , born in 1970) topics: Faith, Religion, Life , Love keywords: breathe, creep, god, life, love, mystic, prayer, souls , whisper Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
by Milan Kundera (Writer, Czechoslovakian , born in 1929) keywords: delight, exaggeration, fear, go, humility, limits, must, mystic, mysticism, push, ridicule, together , way I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality.
by Daniel Petrie (Director, Canadian , born in 1920) keywords: because, cocoon, directing, excited, feeling, first, had, ii, interested, mystic, quality, read, relationships, return, script, sequel, then , too Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.
by John C. Ransomkeywords: accents, accident, also, between, discoverable, except, make, meanings, miraculous, mystic, now, objective, ordinarily, relation, rhymes, sense, sounds, structure, their, therefore, uniform, which , words Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
by Arthur E. Waitekeywords: aptitude, business, canons, either, evidence, faculty, harmony, knowledge, life, mystic, now, ordinary, own, seldom, sphere, things, very , works
