"Mystical states enter and depart with a spontaneous evanescence, generally lasting for only brief periods before fading into the light of common day. Yet in that sudden opening of a window to another reality, as in the fleeting moments of poetic apprehension received in a state of intoxication, such states give evidence of an intrinsic ‘mystical faculty of human nature, usually crushed to death by the cold facts and dry criticism of the sober hour’"
—Richard Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche 

(Source: knowledgeandspirit)