Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.

Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable.

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

That's the thing about dreams - they're ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it's not a dream.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Go ahead. Weep for the rare, the never seen this way again, the excruciating, ineffable, unmitigated beauty of love.

As a professional climber, that's the question you always get: Why, why, why? It's an ineffable thing; you can't describe it.

My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.

Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence.

With somebody like Harrison Ford, they're so commanding and confident, and you know, he does have a certain power or charisma, and those are things that are sort of ineffable.

Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define, but we all seem to respond similarly to.

There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be.

People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.

I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he talked so much about silence. He said, "The radiant one inside me has never said a word."

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself.

In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.

From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.

Anguish over the loss of a loved one or feelings of helplessness have complex roots. But in the end, they make you feel bad because they adjust your brain's chemistry. Happiness and its opposite are both electro-chemical reactions; those reactions are temporary and ineffable and could even have hidden benefits.

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