mysticism
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Her work courses with an assured mysticism that makes her feel so emblematic of L.A. itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
Beta takes a similar approach to expressions of spirituality and mysticism, which there is a fair amount of in this book, given Alice Coltrane’s personal journey into becoming Swamini Turiyasangitananda.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026
But mysticism also holds sway behind the closed door of politics.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
Set at Chiddinglye Estate, a 15th-century farm in West Sussex, England, the three-day event includes fungus-focused art installations, lectures and gastronomy; educational walks; and lots of music, mysticism and science—sometimes all three at once.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
One evening, I told him how unhappy I was not to be able to find in Sighet a master to teach me the Zohar, the Kabbalistic works, the secrets of Jewish mysticism.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
They took refuge in the most sombre of mysticisms, or, at least, in dogmatism of the narrowest kind.
From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Nahum Slouschz
Abjuring Mysticisms We shall lead your interest away from "vague mysticisms" and emphasize such phases of scientific psychological theory as bear directly on practical achievement.
From Psychology and Achievement Being the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Warren Hilton
The Alexandrian mysticism is the most learned and the profoundest of all known mysticisms.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
Her account of the matter was highly satisfactory, and I must have been made of stone, not to credit her and her mysticisms.
From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper
It had its origin in that instinctive yearning after the supernatural, the Divine, which dwells in all human hearts, and which has revealed itself in all philosophies, mysticisms, and religions.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
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The Old Man and the Sea
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"The Fallacy of Success" by G.K. Chesterton
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