“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control. To calculate on the unforeseen is perhaps exactly the paradoxical operation that life most requires of us.” WorldArtSeemsChanceRolesPlansMysteryBalanceLimitsEssentialsSurpriseOperationsRecognizingCalculationsParadoxicalCollaboratingUnforeseen Author:Rebecca Solnit
“America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.” IfsNeedsShouldBookAmericaGivenChanceMysteryTasteSucceedShould HaveSellsAshamedTrash Book:The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings Source: The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings
“Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And for some reason in our most difficult times, we have the best chance to wake up. Many people will tell you that their divorce or illness or loss of job was the wake up call.” PeopleRealReasonMomentsJobsJoyDifficultChanceLossMysteryWake UpIllnessDivorceRadicalDifficult TimesWake Up CallJob Loss Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“Some things will always remain a mystery at this level of consciousness, and it is right that they should. So do not try to solve all the mysteries. Give the universe a chance. It will unfold itself in due course. Enjoy the experience of becoming.” GivingShouldTryingUniverseCoursesEnjoyChanceLevelsConsciousnessMysteryBecomingExperienceSolveDues Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history--even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?” IfsChancePiecesProgressMysteryBoundsPace Book:The Sense of an Ending Source: The Sense of an Ending