Mystical Experience Quotes

“What is it that has called you so suddenly out of nothingness to enjoy for a brief while a spectacle which remains quite indifferent to you? The conditions for your existence are almost as old as the rocks. For thousands of years men have striven and suffered and begotten and women have brought forth in pain. A hundred years ago, perhaps, another man sat on this spot; like you he gazed with awe and yearning in his heart at the dying light of the glaciers. Like you he was begotten of man and born of woman. He felt pain and brief joy as you do. Was he someone else? Was it not you yourself? What is this Self of yours? What was the necessary condition for making the thing conceived this time into you, just you and not someone else? What clearly intelligible scientific meaning can this 'someone else' really have? If she who is now your mother had cohabited with someone else and had a son by him, and your father had done likewise, would you have come to be? Or were you living in them, and in your father's father... thousands of years ago? And even if this is so, why are you not your brother, why is your brother not you, why are you not one of your distant cousins? What justifies you in obstinately discovering this difference - the difference between you and someone else - when objectively what is there is the same?”
― Erwin Schrödinger, My View of the World

“But when the sun drops closer to the earth, the cold of the earth runs to it from the water and causes all green things to dry up. And because the sun has dropped closer to the earth, the days are short, and it is winter.”
― Hildegard of Bingen, Selected Writings

“And I saw a light-filled man emerge from the aforesaid dawn and pour his brightness over the aforementioned darkness; it repulsed him; he turned blood-red and pallid, but struck back against the darkness with such force that the man who was lying in the darkness became visible and resplendent.”
― Hildegard of Bingen, Selected Writings

“Two mystic states can be dissociated: the ecstatic-beneficent-and-benevolent, contemplation of the divine love, the divine splendour with goodwill toward others.

And the bestial, namely the fanatical, the man on fire with God and anxious to stick his snotty nose into other men's business or reprove his neighbour for having a set of tropisms different from that of the fanatic's, or for having the courage to live more greatly and openly.

The second set of mystic states is manifest in scarcity economists, in repressors etc.

The first state is a dynamism. It has, time and again, driven men to great living, it has given them courage to go on for decades in the face of public stupidity. It is paradisical and a reward in itself seeking naught further... perhaps because a feeling of certitude inheres in the state of feeling itself. The glory of life exists without further proof for this mystic.”
― Ezra Pound

“What do you think about astral travel? And about getting out of the body? ... I do not know about it. I am very happy in this body. Why should I get out? [laughter]”
― Jean Klein, Beyond Knowledge

“I saw the massive stone altar first begin to glow like a ruby; then it was a heart of liquid gold like a solid single-crystal chrysoprase: the gold intensified into ice-cold emerald and passed into the dark sapphire of an arctic sky; this again withdrew into a violet so deep that the visual purple of the eye itself seemed absorbed in that depth, that abyss of color in which sight was being drowned. And as this intensification of vibrancy seemed to sweep across the visible spectrum up to those ranges where energy absorbs all mass and that which can pierce the most solid is itself fine beyond all substance, so it seemed with hearing. That abyss of sound which I had been thinking of as only depth, it, too, seemed to rise or, rather, I suppose I was carried up on some rising wave which explored the deep of the height.
As the light drew toward the invisible, I experienced a sound so acute that I can only remember feeling to myself that this was the note emitted when the visible universe returns to the unmanifest—this was the consummatum est of creation. I knew that an aperture was opening in the solid manifold. The things of sense were passing with the music of their own transmutation, out of sight. Veil after veil was evaporating under the blaze of the final Radiance. Suddenly I knew terror as never before. The only words which will go near to recreating in me some hint of that actual mode are those which feebly point toward the periphery of panic by saying that all things men dread are made actually friendly by this ultimate awfulness. Every human horror, every evil that the physical body may suffer, seemed, beside this that loomed before me, friendly, homely, safe. The rage of a leaping tiger would have been a warm embrace. The hell of a forest wrapped in a hurricane of fire, the subzero desolation of the antarctic blizzard, would have been only the familiar motions of a simple well-known world. Yes, even the worst, most cunning and cruel evil would only be the normal reassuring behavior of a well-understood, much-sympathized-with child. Against This, the ultimate Absolute, how friendly became anything less, anything relative.”
― Gerald Heard, Dromenon: The Best Weird Stories of Gerald Heard

“Epiphany of remembrance of God inside is the only way to know who you really are and that you are not alone”
― Syed Sharukh

“Jack's voice was heavy with the tingling awe he sometimes felt when a part of a story he’d thrown in on a whim later proved important in an unexpected way. At times like those he honestly wondered if the thing he called inspiration wasn’t something else, something alive, speaking through his pen.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, Death Troupe

“Nothing can separate Soul Mates and Twin Flames, not even Death.”
― Serena Jade, Charismatic Connection: The Authentic Soul Mate Experience

“I can see, I can hear, I can smell, I can taste, I can feel, I can think. So, I can understand that we are surrounded by a great wonder.”
― Romi Florea

“We cannot be open to receiving anything related to a mystical experience if we don’t believe in it.”
― Ora Nadrich, Mindfulness and Mysticism: Connecting Present Moment Awareness with Higher States of Consciousness

“Cian, the ancient one, looked upon the spirit that was crouched and shimmering before him. The moon slid peacefully across the bay and came to rest under his outstretched feet. He sat absolutely still and listened fondly to the voices of the forest that whispered and sang all around him.

“Tell me the dream,” he said at last to the spirit.

“The dream is of a new daughter among us,” she replied. “She is surrounded in secrets, unseen by most; a mystical one in her own right.”

Cian nodded and smiled and sighed into the wind. “Yes. I, too, have seen the vision. A secret child is coming.”
― Marti Healy, The Secret Child

“He’d answered the call of this stark and strange land: a country, his father had once told him, that lived in bold colours and loud noises, cradling the most profound mysteries in her soul even as the secrets of a dark past shaded her heart.”
― J A Croome, The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“Hatred of life can rise to a mystical state.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“One cannot seek the unknown in known places.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Love Watching Madness

“I searched for you in this valley–
in every ray of sun,
in every drop of water.
In every purple song,
in every sunset mourning.

I searched for you in imagined kiss–
in every word I couldn’t invent,
in every touch I can’t resist.

I searched for you at midnight;
in every star I looked upon,
in every dream, desire and storm.

I searched for you right here;
in every touch that I keep inventing,
in every word I keep repeating.

I searched for you.”
― Becky M.R.

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― Anthon St. Maarten, The Sensible Psychic: A Leading-Edge Guide To True Psychic Perception