Quotes About Mystery

If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love.

Do magic. Enter her heart, without touching her.

Unless you are taking a relationship to the next level, it would be best not to know everything about the person. In that way we won't have to expect more or less...

Don't PLAY hard to get. BE hard to get!

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it

Jane Morgan had ruined him. Ridden him hard and put him up wet. He might never recover. Mentally he was even worse off. Who was this girl?

Pictures of the corners of life that no one else saw.

Why do people stay together? Putting aside 'for the sake of the children', and 'the habit of years' and 'economic reasons' as lawyers' nonsense – it's not much more – if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery.

Do you know, when I stepped through that gate I felt as though I had walked into a new world...something quite different from anything I had known before. I felt that something tremendously dramatic was happening and because it was all so quiet and in a way ordinary that made it rather sinister.

God revealed in the flesh," the God-human Jesus Christ, that is the holy mystery, which theology was instituted to preserve and protect. What foolishness, as if it were the task of theology to decode God's mystery, pulling it down to the commonplace, miracle-less words of wisdom based on human experience and reason! Whereas this alone is its charge—to keep the miracle of God a miracle, to comprehend, defend, and exalt the mystery of God, precisely as mystery.

Theologia sacra—it originates in prayerful kneeling before the mystery of the divine child in the stable.

The universe is full of mysteries, my love. And it is in those mysteries that we find our greatest treasures. We must be open to the unknown, to the magic and wonder that surrounds us. It is in that openness that we discover the beauty of life, and the vastness of our own potential. Embrace the mystery, and let it guide you on your journey. (Kneubuhl 50)

I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps

Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it. I

But what does one say to a ghost, except to ask why he was here? I was afraid of the answer, so instead I said, 'What took you so long?

I think of the novelist Haruki Murakami, who compares writing a novel to digging a hole through deep rock to reach a source of water. To access mystery and intuition requires hard work and is a gamble, for there is no guarantee that we will find that source of water.

What is valuable about my worlds of the arts and humanities is that they create spaces for this type of slow thinking. And by this I mean that we value the arts and humanities not simply for the material possibilities and rewards they may bring, like a Pulitzer Prize. Rather, we should value the arts and humanities for their privileging of the mystery and intuition that makes moments of revelation and innovation possible.

But for all we thought we knew about them, there were some things we knew we did not know even after many years of forced and voluntary intimacy, including the art of making cranberry sauce, the proper way of throwing a football, and the secret customs of secret societies, like college fraternities, which seemed to recruit only those who would have been eligible for the Hitler Youth. Not

It was Didion crossed with Chandler as prophesied by Faulkner and shot by Welles.

One does not question a miracle.

The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right.

Confuse your trail, lose your trail.

Vikram Chandra