Reality, no matter how widened and heightened our perceptions, never ceases to be anything but the effect on us of an infinite mystery. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: reality perception mystery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Laurens Van der Post We have to be utterly broken before we can realize that it is impossible to better the truth. It is the truth that we deny which so tenderly and forgivingly picks up the fragments and puts them together again. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Story by Jung of a conversation with a chief of the Pueblo Indians: Jung asked the chief's opinion of the white man and was told that it was not a high one. White people, said Ochwiay Biano, seem always upset, always restlessly looking for something, with the result that their faces are covered with wrinkles. He added that white men must be crazy because they think with their heads, and it is well-known that only crazy people do that. Jung asked in surprise how the Indian thought, to which Ochwiay Biano replied that naturally he thought with his heart. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The sense of smell in the animal is what intuition is to the human spirit. It tells you of the invisible, of what cannot be detected by any other means. It tells you the things that are not there, yet are coming. You see into the blind, opaque past and round the corner of time. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: invisible spirit smell animals blindness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: certainty doubt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have to be utterly broken before we can realize that it is impossible to better the truth. It is the truth that we deny which so tenderly and forgivingly picks up the fragments and puts them together again. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Story by Jung of a conversation with a chief of the Pueblo Indians: Jung asked the chief's opinion of the white man and was told that it was not a high one. White people, said Ochwiay Biano, seem always upset, always restlessly looking for something, with the result that their faces are covered with wrinkles. He added that white men must be crazy because they think with their heads, and it is well-known that only crazy people do that. Jung asked in surprise how the Indian thought, to which Ochwiay Biano replied that naturally he thought with his heart. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sense of smell in the animal is what intuition is to the human spirit. It tells you of the invisible, of what cannot be detected by any other means. It tells you the things that are not there, yet are coming. You see into the blind, opaque past and round the corner of time. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: invisible spirit smell animals blindness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: certainty doubt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “mystery” The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. —Francis Bacon More about this quote Tags: mystery art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero — really look — and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message: "You must change your life. —Ursula K. Le Guin More about this quote Tags: life religion change myth mystery art reason consciousness reflection inquiry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. —René Magritte More about this quote Tags: existence world mystery art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I have learned that no matter how much I learn about anything, I am always at 'the threshold of ignorance,' a frontier of inner and outer awareness (and lack of it) in which some things have become second nature, some things are new and a little uncomfortable, and some things are a complete mystery. —Rich Frye More about this quote Tags: awareness ignorance learning mystery habit comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Tags: mystery adventure daring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. —Francis Bacon More about this quote Tags: mystery art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero — really look — and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message: "You must change your life. —Ursula K. Le Guin More about this quote Tags: life religion change myth mystery art reason consciousness reflection inquiry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. —René Magritte More about this quote Tags: existence world mystery art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have learned that no matter how much I learn about anything, I am always at 'the threshold of ignorance,' a frontier of inner and outer awareness (and lack of it) in which some things have become second nature, some things are new and a little uncomfortable, and some things are a complete mystery. —Rich Frye More about this quote Tags: awareness ignorance learning mystery habit comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Tags: mystery adventure daring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email