Quotes About Mystery

Douglas Preston

Dietrologia is the idea that the obvious thing cannot be the truth. There is always something hidden behind, dietro.

Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast.

Douglas Preston

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

Finally: there is always that in poetry which will not be grasped, which cannot be described, which survives our ardent attention, our critical theories, our classrooms, our late-night arguments. There is always (I am quoting the poet/translator Américo Ferrari) "an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.

You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.

The first stage of the awakening journey is the calling. The calling arrives when we first feel that spiritual impulse that galvanizes our attention. All of a sudden we sense a greater mystery to life that we seek to experience more deeply; it literally calls us.

Religion's primary function is to awaken within us the experience of the sublime and to connect us with the mystery of existence.

This calling can arrive at any point in your life. It is that moment when the trajectory of your life begins to turn toward the mystery of life. When I say the mystery of life, what I'm referring to is that transcendent aspect of life that shines through the world of space and time.

Unfortunately, when we turn to religion, often the churches box us in even more. They tell us that we are inherently flawed, that we need to be forgiven for this sin, this stain that we carry. The first and most important function of religion is to connect you with the mystery of life and the mystery of your own being. When religion fails to do this, it has betrayed its primary mission, and all we are left with is dogma and belief.

A good ritual is meant to evoke the mystery of being, the mystery of our own existence, the mystery of life, the mystery of God. It's meant to evoke that sense of eternity that shines through the latticework of time and space. That's really what ritual is for—to put us in touch with that sense of eternity, with the sense of the sacred.

As I listened to this priest, all the presence and mystery disappeared from the room and everything returned to the relative world.

When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

The Sphinx, the Watch-dog that presideth over evil days.

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

Ha a történet már-már unalomba fullad, mindig feldobja pár liter vér. Mrs. Oliver

Trudno o co? równie niechwytnego, równie trudnego do zlokalizowania, jak ?ród?o plotki.

"This affair must all be unraveled from within." He [Hercule Poirot] tapped his forehead. "These little gray cells. It is 'up to them'—as you say over here."

Very few of us are what we seem.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

You should employ your little grey cells