Quotes About Mystery

La belleza es ese misterio hermoso que no descifran ni la psicología ni la retórica.

Há uma hora da tarde em que a planície está a ponto de dizer alguma coisa; nunca o diz ou talvez o diga infinitamente e não entendemos, ou entendemos mas é intraduzível como uma música...

Jorge Luis Borges

pero en mi niñez he visto hombres viejos que largamente se ocultaban en las letrinas, con unos discos de metal en un cubilete prohibido, y débilmente remedaban el divino desorden.

En la honda noche universal que apenas contradicen los faroles

The certitude that some shelf in some hexagon held precious books and that these precious books were inaccessible, seemed almost intolerable.

la tarea que emprendo es ilimitada y ha de acompañarme hasta el fin, no menos misteriosa que el universo y que yo, el aprendiz.

Nadie sabe de qué mañana el mármol es la llave.

The things of Scandinavia tend to be secret, as if they were a dream. The Last Voyage of Ulysses

Vi el Aleph, desde todos los puntos, vi en el Aleph la tierra, vi mi cara y mis vísceras, vi tu cara, y sentí vértigo y lloré, porque mis ojos habían visto ese objeto secreto y conjetural, cuyo nombre usurpan los hombres, pero que ningún hombre ha mirado: el inconcebible universo.

Lo creerás, Ariadna? —dijo Teseo—. El minotauro apenas se defendió.

From the remote depths of the corridor, the mirror spied on us. We discovered (such a discovery is inevitable in the late hour of the night) that mirrors have something monstrous about them.

De un castigo, de un pacto o de un privilegio, porque las versiones difieren y apenas dejan entrever el fallo de un Dios que asegura a una estirpe la eternidad, si sus hombres, generación tras generación, ejecutan un rito.

a compass vibrated mysteriously… the letters around its edge corresponded to one of the alphabets of Tlön. Such was the first intrusion of this fantastic world into the world of reality.

For love unsatisfied the world is a mystery, a mystery which satisfied love appears to understand.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

The effort of human thought has not been able to track down the essence of a single gnat.

secrecy is a hotbed of vanity

There's something bigger in the world than us, a thing that warms us, though it doesn't warm itself

The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

The ultimate, unqualified mystery is beyond Human experience