Trance Quotes

“One clear moment, one of trance
One missed step, one perfect dance
One missed shot, one and only chance
Life is all...but one fleeting glance.”
― Sanober Khan

“He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Dissociation, a form of hypnotic trance, helps children survive the abuse…The abuse takes on a dream-like, surreal quality and deadened feelings and altered perceptions add to the strangeness. The whole scene does not fit into the 'real world.' It is simple to forget, easy to believe nothing happened.”
― Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse

“Music That Brings, The Meaning Of our Life.
Music That Shows, The Light From Our Soul.

When This Music Touch Our Hear, We call it TRANCE.
When This Music Control Our Emotion We call it "THE SENSATION OF TRANCE”
― Saumya Mohanty

“She rides the sandworm of space!
She guides through all storms
Into the land of gentle winds.
Though we sleep by the snake's den,
She guards our dreaming sould.
Shunning the desert heat,
She hides us in a cool hollow.
The gleaming of her white teeth
Guides us in the night.
By the braids of her hair
We are lifted to heaven!
Sweet fragrance, flower-scented,
Surrounds us in her presence.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Colossus: The X-Men need me. But as I said...
Trance: Yeah, they don't trust you. I got it.
Colossus: What would Wolverine do?
Trance: He'd team up with a teenage girl and go kill bad guys.”
― Christopher Yost, Amazing X-Men, Vol. 3: Once and Future Juggernaut

“Unless we can interpret that ecstatic trip in a way that better grounds our physical reality, trance isn’t worth much.”
― S. Kelley Harrell, Life Betwixt: Essays on Allies in the Everyday and Shamanism Among

“He really did do something to me, and I was too busy falling for it to realize what it was. Good job on a beautiful web, spider.
Excerpt from Rise Above Twilight”
― Kayla Krantz

“... Most often it was Mrs. Moosup doing overtime in a trance of electronic color and simulated life, smoking cigarettes and not wondering.”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

“Like the florets of a frail dandelion
That disperse at the slightest gust of wind,
She lets you go in the trance-like mist,
Of the nocturnal sky.”
― Ruqayya Shaheed Khan

“Lovers of God possess intense concentration. In prayer their attention rivets itself so completely onto God that nothing can tear it away. Even a suggestion of the divine may draw them into a higher state of consciousness. Occasionally this can be somewhat inconvenient. Sri Ramakrishna once went to see a religious drama produced by his disciple. The curtain went up and a character started singing the praises of the Lord. Sri Ramakrishna immediately began to enter the supreme state of consciousness. The stage faded; the actors and actresses faded. As only a great mystic can, he uttered a protest: "I come here, Lord, to see a play staged by my disciple, and you send me into ecstasy. I won't let it happen!" And he started saying over and over, "Money... money...money," so as to keep some awareness of the temporal world.”
― Eknath Easwaran, Passage Meditation: Bringing the Deep Wisdom of the Heart into Daily Life

“Life itself moves so fast and is so mystical we often easily slip into a force-fed trance that enables us to do only a couple of basic actions, which is essentially to survive and spectate.”
― K. Conley

“The sagas, however, do not mention any entheogens in any context that I can discover: the special meal prepared for the seeress in Eiriks saga rauöa is of the hearts of animals and is eaten the night before her seiör is to occur. References to drinking in the Eddas (e.g. Mimir's well, the mead of poetry) are ambiguously metaphorical at best (though in a highly speculative mode, Steven Leto (2000) suggests that the use of both A. muscaria and R semilanceata may be represented metaphorically in various poems or sagas). Archaeology, however, gives some evidence, from several hundred henbane seeds found in the pouch of a burial considered to be that of a seeress (Price, pers. com.) and a very small number of cannabis seeds present in the Oseberg burial (often considered to be that of a seeress or a priestess), carefully Placed, Neil Price tells me, between the cushions and feathers piled by the bed.”
― Jenny Blain, Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic

“La pubertad estaba allí, pero no la comprensión, y la virilidad se introducía en él, como debe ser siempre, igual que un trance. Era inútil penetrar en aquel trance. Inútil describirlo, aunque se hiciese de modo científico y con benevolencia.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“Gerbert, by the window, shuddered; his mouth contorted. The witch began to twist faster and faster while her twin was talking to Gisela, mumbling to her, marching old holy words straight through the child’s ear into her skull, where they entered the bloodstream and looked for the enemy. The monk’s fingers twitched in the same rhythm and he found himself falling into a trance. He knew it would be dangerous to witness the witches brewing and dancing but there was an energy in it that he’d missed badly since he’d been asked to educate the young princess. Gerbert didn’t even notice when the hags stopped, tucked the girl in, rubbed the concoction on her lips and left for the unseen place from which they had come. Gisela healed quickly thereafter: The fever fell that same night and she asked for solid food the next morning. She had no memory of what had happened, but when she bounced on one leg across the meadow in the castle yard, she chanted a little melody that had not been heard in church, an odd melody that made Gerbert’s ears prick up because he sensed the uncanny in it.”
― Marcus Speh, GISELA

“Sometimes a stare comes from too much anxiety or stress. Your system can become overwhelmed." I didn't know it then. but parts inside were scared because he was looking at us so closely. He's getting too close. He's going to find out about us. I didn't make the effort to try to catch any of these thoughts.”
― Olga Trujillo, The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder

“Maybe in another life I was a drag, maybe I was just a shadow.”
― Karry Blues

“And the whole world is diminishing behind. It feels like a trance. Everything is coming to a center point and to this focal point.”
― Pragya Tiwari, Outlet from Loneliness

“Meditation forms a part of my daily life and it guides my mind into the necessary space for writing. It seems that I enter some kind of alertful trance when I work. I become the moment in which I am writing. And yet I am there, the author, standing in the river and meddling with the flow.”
― Paul Lynch

“People are constantly going in and out of trance. When someone is staring out a window or reading a book and does not notice another person entering the room, or the passage of time, this is an example of trance. When we go to a movie, our minds enter the trance state, temporarily permitting ourselves to enter into the world of the film, and losing track of what is going on around us... We say we suspend judgment, but in reality the film entrances us, so that we agree with the premise of the reality portrayed in the film.”
― Laurence Galian, Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence

“Often people who try self-hypnosis, but find it does not produce the results they wish, are entering weak trance states that are vague and drowsy. This is due to the large amount of so-called professional hypnotists who open treatment centers or who make self-help CD's, but who have not grasped (and honestly are afraid of) the enormous power of trance. This is also due to the popular misconception that hypnosis is a form of sleep. These professionals fear putting their subjects into profound trances.”
― Laurence Galian, Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence

“Het lange kijken naar het gewemel brengt me bijna in trance. Wie kent niet die momenten dat het leven even lijkt stil te staan, ... het zijn geen verloren momenten, het zijn kostbare momenten voor jezelf, ook al duren ze maar enkele hartslagen, het is het pure gevoel te bestaan.”
― Chris De Stoop, Het boek Daniel

“The trance-state of prophecy is like no other visionary experience. It is not a retreat from the raw exposure of the senses (as are many trance-states) but an immersion in a multitude of new movements. Things move. It is an ultimate pragmatism in the midst of Infinity, a demanding consciousness where you come at last into the unbroken awareness that the universe moves of itself, that it changes, that its rules change, that nothing remains permanent or absolute throughout all such movement, that mechanical explanation for anything can work within precise confinements and, once the walls are broken down, the old explanations shatter and dissolve, blown away by new movements. The things you see in this trance are sobering, often shattering. They demand your utmost effort to remain whole and, even so, you emerge from that state profoundly changed.”
― Frank Herbert

“Being sensual is like lucid dreaming. It's like you got to be wise enough to know you're in the dream to control it, but not too excited while you're controlling it to wake up from the excitement. You can't break the trance, because if you break the trance from excitement then you don't have the experience anymore.”
― Lebo Grand

“Shared with Public
Your adoration soothes the hearts
Oh Beloved, Your light flows from my wounds while I taste the isolation in a sip of wine
Sip after sip I leave the shadow of your creation towards the Absolute Consciousness”
― Yahia El Haroui

“take a moment to see how much you can remember from your last drive into work. It may have been a thirty-minute drive or longer, but most people would be lucky if they could recall any more than four or five minutes of the total drive. That happens because most of the time that you are driving you are in a trancelike state.”
― Anthony T. Galie, Take Control of Your Subconscious Mind

“I get visions of words,
But it ain't nothing supernatural.
It's just a natural expression,
of divergently wired circuits neural.

Much of my literary universe
is born of intense transcendental states.
Had I let it overwhelm my common sense,
I'd've risen a supernatural figurehead.

Instead, I looked for a tangible explanation,
that flatters my curiosity, not ignorance.
Thus, I stumbled upon the neurochemical roots,
from which all normal and paranormal manifest.

Mind is not a gateway to another realm,
Mind is a wondrous universe on its own.
The messages we think we get from the heavens,
Are actually subconscious constructs of our own.

Be conscious of consciousness,
but more of your subconsciousness.
Your eyes will open up to new vistas,
with wider and more meaningful sapience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“How do I recognize a real saint? Whom I shall see within me whether it is in dreams or trances or meditations, he will be the saint to me. Because God is the only saint in this world. He is within our bodies. When He will manifest within ourselves in the form of a person, He will be the saint to me.”
― Sri Jibamkrishna or Diamond

“There is nothing supernatural about visions - or to be more accurate, contrary to traditional belief, it's not messages from some extraterrestrial domain. Visions are indeed messages from a mysterious realm alright, but like the everyday realm of human perception, the transcendental realm as well is creation of brain chemicals. I won't go into details here, as I already did that in my early days. One of my earliest works, Autobiography of God, contains a detailed analytical account of the neurobiology of transcendental experiences. However, the question is not whether there is an explanation, the question is, is it worth explaining! Because, while sometimes the lack of explanation facilitates superstition, some things are better left unexplained - such as, love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Both trance and fiction can bring through insights and spark personal growth and change. But they are always colored by subjectivity.”
― Starhawk, The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess