Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional they are sceptical and mystical they are romantic and ironic they are cruel and tender and full of mirth and despair.
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that throughout the ages has blended superstition trickery and religion.
Mysticism poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
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.
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
What I do is not some magical mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning get to work on time say my lines and do the best I can.
Liking money like I like it is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
Wit is the appearance the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity and the witty character of mysticism.
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.
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.
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
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.
Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.
You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical it's because I really don't know how it works but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read in order to find out what happens next.