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
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
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
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
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
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. —Umberto Eco More about this quote Tags: truth mystery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It seems that it is only the recent West that has deemed it unnecessary to "initiate" young men. Otherwise, culture after culture felt that if the young man were not introduced to "the mysteries," he would not know what to do with his pain and would almost always abuse his power. It looks like they were right. —Richard Rohr More about this quote Tags: mystery pain men culture initiation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email