Soren Kierkegaard

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.

Danish Philosopher

Alan Watts

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

English Philosopher

Dan Aykroyd

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

Canadian Comedian

Richard Rohr

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

American Clergyman

Hans Hofmann

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

German Artist

Muhammad Iqbal

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Pakistani Poet

E. M. Forster

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

English Novelist

Bruce Nauman

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

American Sculptor

Bernie Siegel

Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.

American Writer

Bradley Beal

D.C., I love you. Mystics, I rock with you.

American Basketball Player

Mystic as a noun often refers to extraordinary spiritual insights beyond common understanding.

Beyond Ordinary

Different cultures have their own mystics who specialize in unique spiritual practices.

Cultural Mysticism

Historically, many mystics are renowned for their prophetic abilities or teachings.

Historical Figures

As an adjective, mystic describes a connection to the divine or something spiritually profound.

Spiritual Connection

Mystic knowledge is often explored through ancient writings and practices.

Religious Texts

Mystic practices can involve personal rituals meant to induce spiritual experiences.

Personal Experience

Mystic can also describe things that invoke a sense of wonder because they're hard to explain.

Perplexing Charm

In art, 'mystic' may refer to symbolic or abstract elements that invite multiple interpretations.

Artistic Ambiguity

 In one such universe, you'd graduate with honors and marry the person of your dreams. In another, not so much. There are still some scientists who would say, hogwash. The only meaningful answer to the question of how many universes there are is one, only one universe. And a few philosophers and mystics

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 you have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government while i shall have the most solemn one to preserve protect and defend it we're not enemies but friends we must not be enemies though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection the mystic chords of

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 The only meaningful answer to the question of how many universes there are is one. Only one universe. And a few philosophers and mystics might argue that even our own universe is an illusion. So, as you can see, right now there is no agreement on this question, not even close.

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 I've learned that whatever moves you, whatever urges you to create, to build, whatever keeps you from failing, whatever helps you survive, is perhaps the oldest and the simplest emotion known to mankind, and that is love. A mystic poet from my land famously wrote,

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 guards protected the young czarevitch day and night and kept his condition secret from the Russian people alexandra was desperate to help her son so she turned to a mystic healer named grigori rasputin despite his questionable reputation

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 Darjeeling young husband who was both Saint mystic visionary and spy had to find another place to fire the British imagination the imperial venture and he saw from compose on this extraordinary mountain hovering over the universe and

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 who attempted to understand the universal laws of grammar, or in the 16th century by the Elizabethan mystic John Dee, who practiced alchemy and divination. More fringe theories that the book was written by a coven of Italian witches,

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 happens they open many many doors one of the things that happen was as I also work with human and wildlife Cui's distance I like to build a mystic when I first times I went there was just a lot of you know a lot of trauma a lot of

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 working on political campaigns, being an activist for the environment. And it can be sort of crazymaking, housing both the mystic and the warrior in one body. I've always been attracted to those rare people who pull that off,

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 is a place of rain mystic wonder and more rain if you look out to the cool waters of a lock a quick flick or something slick