Trance Quotes

• We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Early
  • Trance
  • Infancy

• Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single goddamn moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Mess
  • Bliss
  • Goddamn

• Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about despair is that it wakes us up. We can see the world more clearly and open to new possibilities...And we can find new joy in the ordinary.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Up
  • World
  • Joy

• I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Taste
  • Wants
  • Brands

• Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Memories
  • Souls
  • Trance

• You spend your life dreaming, running 'round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Life
  • Dreaming
  • Trance

• In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Technology
  • Film
  • Journalism

• I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • People
  • Church
  • Cry

• No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

  

  John Milton
  • Inspires
  • Spell
  • Breathed

• Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Life
  • Real
  • Nice

• Look at what trance means. It means to transcend... it means to become transcendental! So if we get a singular transcendental path of light, that could lead to such great dimensions of consciousness, of revelation, of spirituality, of spiritual power.

  

  Alice Coltrane
  • Consciousness
  • Spirituality
  • Trance

• I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results.

  

  Elizabeth Zimmermann
  • Results
  • Spinning
  • Charges

• Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?

  

  William James
  • Religious
  • Compare
  • Melancholy

• Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.

  

  Wayne White
  • Audience
  • Cameras
  • Trance

• Running had always put me into a kind of trance. It was one of my first meditative experiences, and it let me escape from my self-berating, never-good-enough routine. Running produces endorphins that are calming; running lowers anxiety. I loved the feeling I had when I ran. It was shelter from the storm.

  

  Colleen Saidman
  • Running
  • Experiences
  • Endorphins

• When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • World
  • Conflict
  • Trance

• I looked in the mirror and stared at my reflection, until I was in the head-clearing trance that comes when you stare at something for a long time.

  

  Nick Burd
  • Mirror
  • Trance
  • Stare

• Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance.

  

  Bradley Nowell
  • Music
  • House
  • Light

• I know I have different priorities when I am close to dreaming and coming out of dreaming. I notice I am connected to people in a different way, and connected to the earth. For me, I have exactly the same emotional responses when I go through into shamanic trance.

  

  Amy Hardie
  • Priorities
  • Dreaming
  • Shamanic

• I'm always in a state of trance, I'm not very often in the real world.

  

  Emma Hewitt
  • State
  • Real World
  • Trance

• The people of Earth are emerging from an amnesiac-like state of collective shock, which has blocked the influx of spiritual knowledge into the human gene pool. And while it is quite obvious to many that “You create your reality”, the vast majority of humans still need to be awakened from the unconsciously controlled trance of powerlessness that they voluntarily took on.

  

  Barbara Marciniak
  • Earth
  • Knowledge
  • Humans