Quotes About Mystery

I thought of something so beautiful that I couldn't understand it. And I ended up forgetting what it was.

I thought of something so beautiful that I couldn't even understand it. And I ended up forgetting what it was.

Que tenho afinal? Que me falta? Sou tão feliz como qualquer cachorro, por que então este vazio e esta nostalgia? Que ânsia é esta, como se eu só amasse o que não conheço?" E o homem - o único a poder de livrá-lo da pergunta - este homem nunca lhe dirá quem ele é para não perdê-lo para sempre.

Life really just barely escapes me though the certainty comes to me that life is other and has a hidden style

La inspiración es como un misterio olor a ambar".

The gradual deheroization of oneself is the true labor one works at beneath the apparent labor, life is a secret mission. So secret is the true life that not even to me, who am dying of it, can the password be entrusted, I die without knowing wherefrom. And the secret is such that, only if the mission manages to be accomplished shall I, in a flash, perceive that I was born in charge of it — every life is a secret mission.

Renda-se, como eu me rendi. Mergulhe no que você não conhece como eu mergulhei. Não se preocupe em entender, viver ultrapassa qualquer entendimento.

Meanwhile the clouds are white and the sky is all blue. Why so much God. Why not a little for men.

I am the priestess of a secret that I no longer know. And I serve out of blissful ignorance. I found out something I was unable to understand, my lips became sealed, and I retained only the incomprehensible fragments of a ritual.

A vida se me é, e eu não entendo o que digo. E então adoro.

Y cuando pienso que no existe otro igual al mío en este mundo siento un susto alegre. Y nunca lo habrá. Nunca es lo imposible. [...] ¿Qué hay entre nunca y siempre que los une tan indirectamente e íntimamente?

Clark Ashton Smith

Behind each thing a shadow lies; Beauty hath e'er its cost: Within the moonlight-flooded skies How many stars are lost!

A PRECEPT With words of ivory, Of bronze, of ebony, Of alabaster, marble, steel, and gold, The beauty of the visible is told. But how with these express The unseen Loveliness— Splendour and light, and harmony, and sound, The heart hath felt, the sense hath never found? No shining words of stone— Shadow and cloud alone— These shall the poet seek eternally, Whose lines would carve the mask of Mystery.

In the dark, every voice could be the voice of an ancestor or a spirit guide. In the darkness, who can tell the living from the dead?

A man I barely knew told me, "When the grid goes down, the mythical creatures return.

The truth of our existence is that it is uncertain.

The aim of Zen practice is not to escape or transcend life's discomfort. Zen practice is about plunging into the mystery of daily life just as it is.

All women are fatal. But maybe all men are fatal too, to almost all women? I say maybe, and I say almost. What do we know about the other sex?

La mer chante à bouche fermée

la certeza de que hay algo mucho más grande que el ser humano: algo que es ajeno y no se puede abarcar, pero que existe. Ficción, sugestión, fe, no sé cuál es la palabra adecuada.

Solo que todo depende de una gracia de aspiración al conocimiento del misterio, de nuestra paciencia, persistencia y energía suficiente para aceptar el sufrimiento de la transición a una vida nueva.

un point assez mystérieux et en tout cas non élucidé de la nature humaine : l intolérance a l incertitude, intolérance telle qu elle entraine beaucoup d hommes a souffrir les pires et les plus réels des maux en échange de l espoir, si vague soit-il, d un rien de certitude.

We go out in the fog in the morning won't burn.