This mysticism is the inner thing which gives the spark of imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Inner Reality: Ary Stillman In Cuernavaca] Reference
It's the use of what I call mysticism in his rhetoric: he's the candidate of "change". From Wordnik.com. [Hillary To NBC: Fire David Shuster] Reference
All of the common day magic and mysticism is all illusion. From Wordnik.com. [Criss Angel ‘Phenomenon’ Audience Member Fight] Reference
Library mysticism is a lot like yoga: it is simple and profound at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Librarian Mystics] Reference
In the course of time the word mysticism came to an extended, indeed a different meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Perennial Philosophy] Reference
The film has a great, unreal feel to it, a certain mysticism that is akin to Little Big Man. From Wordnik.com. [Film] Reference
Eastern mysticism is not more scientific than Western, but it is more novel to us, so we wonder at it. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?] Reference
When anyone shrouds things in mysticism and lies it is not hard to know what kind of person they are overall. From Wordnik.com. [Dr Gyi] Reference
Or if the weather happened to be inclement, Mr. Berners and Mr.. Blondelle would sit in the library together, deep in German mysticism or French sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel As The Grave] Reference
Whereas the so-called mysticism of Plato is purely. From Wordnik.com. [Timaeus] Reference
I noticed a strain of what might be called mysticism in your book. From Wordnik.com. [News & Politics] Reference
We have recalled the mysticism, supernaturalism, and intolerance of the Middle. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform] Reference
Instead of imagination Spinoza cultivated mysticism, which is indeed an alternative. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
It has a more serious name: it's called mysticism by those who find themselves inside it. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
It was called mysticism, but I found it, ironically, non-mysterious and eminently rational. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Goldberg: Hindu Jesus: A Different Kind of Christianity] Reference
The naming of the sparkling azure waters the frame Puerto Vallarta is also imbued in mysticism. From Wordnik.com. [Puerto Vallarta: escape to paradise] Reference
Mr. Yeats is not insincere, but his mysticism is a part of his art rather than a part of his mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century] Reference
Various sources informed him that in the life-system known as mysticism there was a harmonium of fact and value. From Wordnik.com. [Another Roadside Attraction]
Fair enough, but I don’t think that going after eastern mysticism is all that big a deal given its pantheistic nature. From Wordnik.com. [Street Seders: Sacred Protest] Reference
Editor's note: Schools also serve as an incubator for mysticism, which is promoted as a faith-neutral, mental health practice. From Wordnik.com. [Watcher's Lamp] Reference
Under that title Kawabata talked about a unique kind of mysticism which is found not only in Japanese thought but also more widely. From Wordnik.com. [Kenzaburo Oe - Nobel Lecture] Reference
20The second failing of many scholars of medieval mysticism is their blind acceptance of the male mystical experience as normative. From Wordnik.com. [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference
That will, of course, be called mysticism, second sight, orthodoxy, hypocrisy, but fortunately it is not contradicted by such nicknames. From Wordnik.com. [The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour] Reference
Such directions were imprecise, after all, and fraught with the kind of mysticism that he hated. From Wordnik.com. [Acorna's Rebels]
Attempts have been made to dismiss these suggestions by calling them 'mysticism' and 'mediaeval magic'. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
It's just my attempt at trying to understand some of the 'mysticism' associated with my favorite fish - fugu. From Wordnik.com. [Fugu - who knew?] Reference
It would be a mingling of truth and of falsehood, of reality and of illusion: 'mysticism' in the bad sense of the word. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Schaeffer] Reference
And a kind of mysticism not far removed from spiritualism is explicitly imbued in Gibran's philosophy and literary works. From Wordnik.com. [The Prophet : A Rare Touch of Mysticism] Reference
And I sincerely dislike "mysticism," as the term is used today (realizing that it hasn't always meant precisely the same thing). From Wordnik.com. [Free to be Home] Reference
So it is with what people call mysticism in poetry. ". From Wordnik.com. [The New Tenant] Reference
And there is a spurious mysticism, meaningless rubbish of which. From Wordnik.com. [G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study] Reference
Our kind of mysticism is more likely to be a pleasant hobby than a transformative vocation. From Wordnik.com. [Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.]
Either it degenerates into a purely technical treatise or it becomes lost in a mysticism which is to the average reader incomprehensible. From Wordnik.com. [When Winter Comes to Main Street] Reference
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