Mystery Quotes - Page 20

• It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

  Anais Nin

  Ocean, Eye, Order

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• It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body.

  Gustav Meyrink

  Writing, Track, Lasts

  Gustav Meyrink, Mike Mitchell (Translator) (2013). “The Golem”, p.85, SCB Distributors

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• Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so - the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here.

  James Henley Thornwell

  Christian, Powerful, Rich Or Poor

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• Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument. If you do this consistently - if you stop fighting and resisting - you will fully experience the present, which is a gift. Someone once told me, "The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called 'the present'."

  Deepak Chopra

  Fighting, Past, Views

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.43, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And If not now, when? A brick alone is nothing but a brick. It takes a collection of bricks to build a house. Instructor, what?? You mean you teach best what you most need to learn

  Richard Bach

  Leadership, Sports, Mean

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• How can one dive into the intricate mystery of man when One doesn't see where One is located

  Saraha

  Men, Intricate

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• There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself, in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it. In this discovery a benevolent force shines spontaneously from your presence towards all beings, and this light cannot help but illuminate the world.

  Mooji

  Light, Discovery, Shining

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• The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Snow, Joy, Essentials

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.98, Faber & Faber

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• How swiftly the strained honey
  of afternoon light
  flows into darkness
  
  and the closed bud shrugs off
  its special mystery
  in order to break into blossom:
  
  as if what exists, exists
  so that it can be lost
  and become precious

  Lisel Mueller

  Light, Order, Darkness

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• There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

  Mark Helprin

  Lakes, Justice, World

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

  Anthony Hecht

  Children, Parent, Masonic

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• Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

  Anthony Hecht

  Children, Age, World

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• A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Should, Early Life

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.75, University of Illinois Press

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• Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek — why, for example, people would rather make love with an attractive partner than get a slap on the belly with a wet fish.

  Steven Pinker

  People, Goal, Making Love

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.143, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Ocean, Space

  Charles Darwin (2006). “Voyage of the Beagle”, p.548, National Geographic Books

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• To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.

  Gillian Flynn

  Ultimate

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• I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

  Gillian Flynn

  Thinking, Issues, Interesting

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• If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

  Origen

  Father, Sacred, Revelations

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• I love the mystery behind things.

  Janelle Monae

  Behinds

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Dream, Mind, Strange

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• It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.

  Jack Kornfield

  Believe, Knowing, Appreciate

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• To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder
  and doubt and guess.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Years, Doubt

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  People, Problem

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• A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

  Keith Miller

  Desert, Forests, Bones

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• Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Beauty, Song, Art

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