Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.
We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross
Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.
The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.
A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.
The first time I took my daughters to the ocean - and I love the ocean but where we swim is very rough, very New England, rip tide, not messing around ocean - and a thought arrived: I was asking my daughters to slowly recognize death, just dip their toes in its fathomless edge, to know it is there, even in the night when we don't see it and that it, in its mystery and largeness, in its terror, is the thing that makes life precious, magnificent and full of never-ending curiosity.
May the Great Mystery continue to guide and protect the paths of you and your loved ones.
The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.
You know what's the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery.
It is amazing that 2001: A Space Odyssey has not aged at all, except for a few minor technical gadgets. The main reason is, of course, the philosophical or spiritual element in this story. We know as little today about the secrets of Creation and evolution as we knew before, and it is not likely that we'll ever know much more. We'll have to be satisfied, as Kubrick was, respectfully admiring the potential for evolution within the mystery of the universe's creation.
True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
The greatest writers of this age. . . are aware of the mystery of our existence.
People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.
Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.
To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.
Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.
We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.