Quotes About Mystery

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.

There was the Door to which I found no Key;There was the Veil through which I might not see.Some little talk awhile of Me and TheeThere was—and then no more of Thee and Me.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Expression is the mystery of beauty.

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary yet is wondrously present.

despite catastrophes that defy the imagination, daily life goes on, forgetfulness seems to conquer memory, the world keeps mysteriously renewing itself.

There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.   Eventually

he did not suffer bullet wounds.

Back, suddenly, to uncertainty.

Every man is a moon and has a [dark] side which he turns toward nobody; you have to slip around behind if you want to see it. -Mark Twain From introduction to The Amateur.

When awful darkness and silence reignOver the great Gromboolian plain,Through the long, long wintry nights.

Who, or why, or which, or what,Is the Akond of Swat?

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

For 'the human' is a medium of possible divine revelation.

Mary will be required to exhibit total trust in God, which means "to abandon oneself" to the living God and the mystery of his will. Indeed, Mary's faith will be tested over and over again. And each time she will pass the test, "accepting fully and with a ready heart everything that is decreed in the divine plan."†

Somehow, turning to God and trusting him with the mysteries of suffering is the answer to the problem of suffering.

Who spread its canopy? Or curtains spun?Who in this bowling alley bowled the sun?

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Yes. Despite the ultimate mystery of the universe there's still one small truth we can live by. Choice. Never merely to take what we are given or inherit, but to choose. It may not seem like much but it's the difference between meanings and memories that disappear in the sand, and something that doesn't. Choice is the arrow. For then, at least, we play a part in making ourselves.