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• The final mystery is oneself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspiring, Learning, Growth

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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• Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Alive, Never Forget

  "Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition". Book by Wendell Berry, 2000.

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• Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

  Charles de Lint

  Would Be, Dull, Strive

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, "Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", 1996.

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  The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.331, Princeton University Press

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• Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

  Max Planck

  Nature, Science, Trying

  Max Planck (1933). “Where is science going?”

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• Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

  Julia Cameron

  Thinking, Mastery, Intrigue

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Apr 28, 2014

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• Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

  Rene Magritte

  Motivational, Art, Serendipity

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• Mystery hovers over all things here below.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  All Things

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• The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

  Ken Kesey

  Motivational, Jobs, Garden

  "The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.

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• When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

  Khalil Gibran

  Long, Mystery Of Life

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

  Ken Kesey

  Interesting, Answers, Evoke

  "The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.

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• Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Elements, Mysterious, Virtue

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• Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, Spiritual, Pain

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 12, 2014

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• Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Miracle, Magic, Literature

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.114

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• The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Motherhood, Secret, World

  Carlos Castaneda (1971). “A Separate Reality.Further Conversations with Don Juan”

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• Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.

  Ray Bradbury

  Answers

  Ray Bradbury (2002). “I Live by the Invisible: New & Selected Poems”, p.25, Salmon Publishing

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• The heavens are full of floating mysteries.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Heaven, Floating

  Thomas Buchanan Read (1855). “Poems by Thomas Buchanan Read”, p.246

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• All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.

  J. G. Holland

  Kingdoms, All Things

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• Mystery is not profoundness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Literature

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Eye, Vision, Mysterious

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Humble, Enough

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• The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

  Anais Nin

  Spiritual, Life Lesson, Knowledge

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• It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Beautiful, Country

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.309, Vintage

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• Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

  Bertrand Russell

  Ignorance, Delightful, Depends

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Analysis of Mind”, p.52, Bertrand Russell

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