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“I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.”

Thinking Belief Mystery Childhood Information Benefits Catholic Symbols Visuals Clue Mystery Of Life

Author:Robert Gober

“I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.”

World Made Age My Own Quality Wonder Mystery Childhood Middle Special Promise Horror Scene Evidence Immortality Visible Intensity Vague Middle Ages Hints Seductive Menace Plausible

Book:MEMOIRS 1925-1950

Source: MEMOIRS 1925-1950

“I would come, many years later, to understand why To Kill A Mockingbird is considered an important novel, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.”

Way Years Firsts Important Games Novel Mystery Tree Childhood Summer Treasure Exotic Mockingbird Kill A Mockingbird

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones.”

Giving Lying Mystery Childhood Cry Flower Cold Stones Lips Supreme Naked Reverie Precious Stones

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!”

Secret Mystery Childhood Fatherhood

Book:Memories

Source: Memories

“When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.”

World Long Whole Stories Earth Form Life Is Individual Greater Our Lives Mystery Childhood Movement Expression Seasons Harmony Limitation Parenthood Gravity Individual Life Maleness

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang to the hum of the turning earth. The magical time of childhood stood still, and the pulse of the living earth pressed its mystery into my living blood.”

Stills Eye Earth Water Mystery Blood Childhood Summer Rivers Seven Bless Pulse Ultima

Author:Rudolfo Anaya

“Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.”

Long Enough Beautiful Death Mystery Childhood Dying Summer Seeds Fierce Impermanence Summer Days Happy Times

Book:On Being a Friend

Source: On Being a Friend