Quotes About Mystery

We are interested in what we love. We love what we are interested in. What we are interested in also loves us and is interested in us. And the way this interest and love unveils is one of the major mysteries of life.

The secret of being boring is to tell everything.

After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'" -Dodge(obviously)

I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?

But did it ever occur to you, my friend, that force and matter are merely the barriers to perception imposed by time and space? When one knows, as I do, that time and space are identical and that they are both deceptive because they are merely imperfect manifestations of a higher reality, one no longer seeks in the visible world for an explanation of the mystery and terror of being.

What if, parallel to the life we know, there is another life that does not die, which lacks the elements that destroy our life? Perhaps in another dimension there is a different force from that which generates our life.

Where's Dorothy?" Dad said. "I don't know. She came in, took the money and went. I don't even know how she got in." "What did she say?" "She said "shush"" "And what did you say?" "I shushed

Vincenzo stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum in Paris on 21 August 1911,

The mouse ducks (yes, actually ducks)

People are mysterious, even to themselves.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

We must not remind them that giants walk the Earth.

There were occasionally rifts in the cloud where the face of a woman appeared, frowning.

But here is where the gods are, speculating, bemused.

"Sun, don't go!" I was awakeat last. "No, go I must, they're callingme.""Who are they?"Rising he said, "Someday you'll know. They're calling to youtoo." Darkly he rose, and then I slept.

Cats conspire to keep us at arm's length.

Now, if this were a murder mystery, and I were a weird Belgian guy with a big mustache, this is the point where I would suddenly stop dead, drop my tiny glass of chocolate liqueur, and say something like "But no! But I have been an imbecile! Imbécile!" And then you'd have to wait another fifty pages or so to find out exactly what the hell I had been talking about. But I won't do that to you. The salutation

I wonder who's kissing her now, Wonder who's teaching her how.

Der Herr bewahre uns vor deiner hüllenlosen Ungestalt!

Dr Samantha Crowe.

They're telling us is that this is their planet - which they've been ruling for a hundred and eighty million years, maybe more. They're telling us they've got genetic memory, the magnetic field is their compass, and they're everywhere where there's water. They want us to know that we're in the here and now, whereas they're everywhere and for ever. Those are the facts. It's all in the message, and it says a lot.

When they're older, maybe my grandchildren will embrace apophatic theology, the theology of not knowing. Maybe they will look for ways to make the irrational rational by hiding behind words like "mystery" in order to sustain their faith. Apophatic theology teaches that the divine is ineffable and recognized only when it's felt.

The paradox is that sometimes the less it makes sense, the better it works. And the less one knows about the "holy" people we follow, the better. One of the mysteries of human need is that religious leaders must become more than the sum of their fallible, sometimes awful, parts, because other people need them to be more. This does not make the religious leader a hypocrite; it just shows that the rest of us are desperate. So

Maybe we need a new category other than theism, atheism or agnosticism that takes paradox and unknowing into account.