Quotes by Mystical Experiences Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith. Salman Rushdie mystical-experiencesloveart So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence, but rather as a new engagement with life. He is offering us a relationship to the world that is more sensitized to suffering and the causes of suffering, and he gives rise to the possibility of another kind of culture, another kind of civilization. Stephen Batchelor mystical-experiencesofferingcivilization The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work. Terence McKenna mystical-experiencespowerfulmen The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception. Thomas Merton artisticmystical-experiencesperception All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course. Tom Stoppard coincidence-in-lifemystical-experiencesvices The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody. Tom Stoppard mystical-experiencesrealblue I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language. W. H. Auden mystical-experiencesegothinking 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 significancemystical-experiencesnatural Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual. William James mystical-experiencesmotherlying I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication. William Shatner horsemystical-experiencescommunication«12
