Richard Matheson Quotes

I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal.

I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure.

I've always been intrigued by the supernatural.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely.

I think there is more to this world than we can possibly fathom. There's got to be.

I'm a pure spirit, ha ha ha!

You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free. Maybe it will. But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.

In the realm of divine consciousness, you can see beyond beliefs, beyond knowing, and beyond not knowing.

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of human thought. In short, a religious belief is only a finger pointing to the moon. Some religious people never get beyond the study of the finger. Others are engaged in sucking it. Others yet use the finger to gouge their eyes out. These are the bigots whom religion has made blind. Rare indeed is the religionist who is sufficiently detached from the finger to see what it is indicating - these are those who, having gone beyond belief, are taken for blasphemers.

We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.

There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that.

One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.

One of the extraordinary things about awakening is that it carries with it the realization that there is only Spirit. Even the things of the world that we look at as problems are simply part of the way the world manifests, because it does so in terms of opposites.

Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.

Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we don't die. The cessation of the body is an illusion, and like a magician sweeping aside a curtain, the soul reveals what lies beyond.

A consecrated space experientially reminds you that there is much more to life than you think.

Oh yeah, Scooby, it does. You and I have gone round many a day. I’m the reason you keep thinking you’ve had alien abductions. (Caleb)

The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path.

I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.

When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.

Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.