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The very commonplaces of life are
components of
its eternal mystery.
Gertrude Atherton |
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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
Einstein
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Most
of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us
to suspend disbelief, to
recognize that all our
hard-won knowledge may only be provisional and the world may
be quite different
than we believe it to be. This can be very
stressful,
even frightening. But if we are
not willing
to wonder, we may have to hang up the phone on
life.
Rachel
Naomi Remen
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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
Nerburn
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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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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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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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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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Mystery
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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Mystery
is a resource, like coal or gold,
and its preservation is a fine thing.
Tim
Cahill
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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, and reserve a nook of
shadow for the passing bird; keep a place in your heart
for the unexpected guest, an altar for the unknown God.
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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I am entirely on the side of mystery.
I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is
ridiculous.
I believe in the profound and
unfathomable mystery of life
which has a sort of divine
quality about it.
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
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Mystery
has great power. In the many years I have worked with
people
with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing
else can
comfort them and offer hope when nothing else offers
hope. I have seen
Mystery heal fear that is otherwise unhealable. For
years I have watched
people in their confrontation with the unknown recover awe,
wonder, joy,
and aliveness. They have remembered that life is holy,
and they have
reminded me as well. In losing our sense of Mystery,
we have become
a nation of burned-out people. People who wonder do
not burn out.
Rachel
Naomi Remen
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Grandfather's Blessings |
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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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As I
make my slow pilgrimage through the world,
a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and
grow.
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