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#mystic

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #mystic




Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.


Meister Eckhart


#redemption #stumble #respect

Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ.


Thomas Merton


#faith #inspiration #mysticism #experience

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.


Henri Bergson


#religion #science

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.


Edward de Bono


#creativity #idea #mystical #nurtured #practised

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.


Simone Weil


#mysticism #beauty

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.


Robert Wyatt


#honest #i #mystic #nostalgia #prefer

Duende I can't remember her name. It's not as though I've been in bed with that many women. The truth is I can't even remember her face. I kind of know how strong her thighs were, and her beauty. But what I won't forget is the way she tore open the barbecued chicken with her hands, and wiped the grease on her breasts.


Jack Gilbert


#mystical #sex #beauty

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.


Joseph Conrad


#conscious #detached #feelings #impossible #informed

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.


Robertson Davies


#between #canada #country #desire #extraordinary

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.


Carl Van Vechten


#author #beauty #cat #cats #grace






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