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“Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal.”

Ifs Feels Desire Universe Grows Mystery Quiet Manage Immortality Immortal Embedded Duration

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by Him, finally become spiritual themselves, and their grace is sent forth to others. From this comes knowledge of the future, understanding of mysteries, apprehension of hidden things, distribution of wonderful gifts, heavenly citizenship, a place in the choir of angels, endless joy in the presence of God, becoming like God, and, the highest of all desires, becoming God.”

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.”

“Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.”

Whole Desire Mystery Sea Speech Lips Beach Shells Echoes Sigh

Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: What glorious pleasures take shape within you!”

Looks Light Eye Desire Pleasure Darkness Mystery Creation Shapes Angel Burning Glorious Within You Burning Desire

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.”

Heart Desire Mystery Blood Drug Equal Flow Alcohol Obsession Sickness Sensitivity Ebb And Flow

Author:Anais Nin

“Love is more of a respect for a mystery than a desire to know.”

Knows Desire Love Is Mystery

Book:Forgiveness

Source: Forgiveness

“At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.”

Men Heart Lying Desire Mystery Corruption One Man

Book:The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America

Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America

“Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths that a child may comprehend, and mysteries into which angels desire to look.”

Looks May Children Desire Wonderful Mystery Unique Bible Angel Ancient Word Of God Construction Adaptation Admirable

Book:A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

Source: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

“Free from desire, you realize the mystery.”

Desire Realizing Mystery Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Book Of Tao

Author:Laozi