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The very commonplaces of life are
components of
its eternal mystery.
Gertrude Atherton |
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I
no longer feel that life is ordinary. Everyday life is
filled with mystery.
The things we know are only a small part of the things we
cannot know
but can only glimpse. Yet even the smallest of
glimpses can sustain us.
Mystery seems to have the power to comfort, to offer hope,
and to lend
meaning in times of loss and pain. In surprising ways
it is the mysterious
that strengthens us in such times. I used to try to
offer people certainty
in times which were not at all certain and could not be made
certain.
I now just offer my companionship and share my sense of
mystery,
of the possible, of wonder.
Rachel
Naomi Remen
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If
something controls you in
a way that puzzles you, think
of
it as a mystery. Mysteries
are best approached by closing
your eyes and mouth
to
experience
darkness and
silence. I find new and healing
images in
that dark, silent place
away from emotions that control
me. Do not be afraid
to close
your eyes
and be silent in
prayer, meditation, rest or sleep.
In
those states you may
rediscover a new self. Then
your life, time and
thoughts
will become yours
again and
you can live your unique myth.
Bernie
Siegel
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One
does not need to fast for days and meditate for hours at a
time
to experience the sense of sublime mystery which constantly
envelops us. All one need do is to notice
intelligently, if even
for a brief moment, a blossoming tree, a forest flooded
with autumn colors, an infant smiling.
Simon
Greenberg |
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The
joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes
from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet
for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
Arthur
Christopher Benson |
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Real
faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional
mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and
which cannot be comprised in any formula. Real faith
means
the ability to endure life in the face of this mystery.
Martin
Buber |
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There
is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life
that is not mysterious.
François
René de Chateaubriand |
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Perhaps
some day, modern people will learn that mystery is
not the prison of the mind of people, it is their
home.
Walter
Farrell |
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Both
the person of science and the person of action live
always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
J.
Robert Oppenheimer |
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The
most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science. Those to
whom
this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to
wonder
and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; their eyes are
closed.
Albert
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is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
Julia
Cameron |
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Without
mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would
be left to strive for if everything were known?
Charles
DeLint |
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Uncertainty
and mystery are energies of life.
Don't let them scare you unduly,
for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
R.I.
Fitzhenry |
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Those
who dwell among the beauties and mysteries
of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
Rachel
Carson |
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Mystery
is a resource, like coal or gold,
and its preservation is a fine thing.
Tim
Cahill |
Mystery
creates wonder and wonder is the basis of one's
desire to understand.
Neil
Armstrong |
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Let
mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up
your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination,
but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready
for any seed the winds may bring.
Henri
Frederic Amiel |
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Soon
the child's clear eye
is clouded over by ideas
and opinions. Simple free
being becomes encrusted
with the burdensome armor
of the ego. Not until years
later does an instinct come
that a vital sense of mystery
has been withdrawn. The sun
glints through the pines, and the
heart is pierced in a moment
of beauty and strange pain,
like a memory of paradise.
After that day. . .
we become seekers.
Peter
Matthiessen |
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When
all the words have been written, and all the
phrases have been spoken, the great mystery of
life will still remain. We may map the terrains
of our lives, measure the farthest reaches of the
universe, but no amount of searching will ever
reveal for certain whether we are all children
of chance or part of a great design. And who among
us would have it otherwise? Who would wish to take
the mystery out of the experience of looking
into a newborn infant's eyes?
Kent
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