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• A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and elemental life that makes up the earth's living body; it would offer real protection, encourage free expression, and reestablish an ecological balance to be biologically and economically sustainable. Its underlying metaphor would be mystery, the sense of wonder at all that is beyond us and around us, at the forces that sustain our lives and the intricate complexity and beauty of their dance.

  Starhawk

  Real, Animal, Expression

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• For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The first day is yesterday with all its blunders and tears, follies and defeats. Yesterday has passed away, beyond my control forever. The other day is tomorrow with all its pitfalls and threats, its dangers and mystery. Until the sun rises again I have no stake in tomorrow, for it is still unborn.

  Og Mandino

  Two, Yesterday, Forever

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• Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.

  Alice Walker

  Blow, Busy, Intriguing

  Alice Walker (2013). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.89, The New Press

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• If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

  Emma Roberts

  Thinking, People, Boring

  Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 12, 2007.

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• Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.

  Max Lucado

  Helping Others, People, Needs

  Max Lucado (2012). “Life to the Full”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.

  Mary Oliver

  Believe, Fire, White

  Mary Oliver (2012). “House of Light”, p.64, Beacon Press

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• Study is the child of silence and mystery.

  Henri Murger

  Children, Silence, Study

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• Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery

  Gabrielle Roth

  Moving, Space, Divine

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• Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Humility, Darkness, Faces

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• If you want me to explain the picture, if you put it in reality, then the mystery goes away. The situation just catches you and you think it is absurd or mysterious and you just take the picture. You dont want to see the bare reality of what happened. I took the picture as the picture, not as the realistic story of what happened.

  Eva Fuka

  Reality, Thinking, Want

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• We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Important, Facts

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• A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless

  Raghu Rai

  Creative, Useless, Photographer

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• With the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and day after day we are helped to assimilate the Gospel, so that it shapes all our lives.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Rosary, Shapes, Christ

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• What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express.
  Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Art, Vibrations, Speak

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• Hear from the heart wordless mysteries.

  Rumi

  Heart

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• It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Confused, Principles

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• The inner self of every human waits patiently until we are ready to discover it; then it extends an invitation to enter the luminous mystery of existence in which all things are created, nurtured, and renewed. In the presence of this mystery, we not only heal ourselves, we heal the world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, Waiting, World

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• Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

  David Lynch

  Ideas, Numbers

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• I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.

  Kiki Smith

  Trying, Figures, Printmaking

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• I am talking about the general psychological health
  of the species, man. He needs the existence of
  mysteries. Not their solution.

  John Fowles

  Men, Psychological Health, Talking

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Eternity Of Life, Goal

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• If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It's a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you - the Mystery. The one that can never be solved.

  Tom Robbins

  Dark, Thinking, Soul

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• There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to accept and let go. Then, asking the best of the good points.

  Immodesty Blaize

  Letting Go, Self, Asking

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• Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

  Erwin McManus

  Thinking, Facts, Frightened

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• You can open to God through sex. By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe. You can open to be lived by love with no limits, so you are alive as love, offering the deepest gifts of your heart spontaneously and without hesitation, in every moment, at work, with your family and friends, as well as in bed with your lover.

  David Deida

  Sex, Heart, Offering

  "David Deida On Exploring Spirituality Through Sex". bodhitree.com.

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