“I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.” ThinkingBeautifulLife IsMagicLovelyMysteriousTragicTouchingMysticalCarpet Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.” InspirationLife IsOur LivesGrowingDivineSpringInsightMysteriousComplexityFormulasMaximsSlogansLace Book:The Mill on the Floss Source: The Mill on the Floss
“The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.” WorldCharacterHomeLife IsFatherDifficultHoursRoomsObjectsHabitSacredCommunicateWork OutMysteriousOccupationHouseholdImmenseMarvelousTranscendenceAdventurousPrestigeEmbodiment Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways.” WayHumansPersonsMadeTogetherLife IsIndividualGrowsHuman BeingsCasesOne ThingRelationMysteriousGentlenessBearableLife TogetherUnbreakableMysterious WaysUnbreakable Bonds Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter
“The kenosis of the Son reveals the mystery of God who is Love. This gift of life is an extension of a mysterious exchange at the heart of the Deity. In God himself the One does not exclude the Other, it includes it. The Unity of God is so complete, so rich, that it is not solitude enclosed in itself, but rather the fullness of communion. And thereby, the source of all communion.” HeartDoeLife IsRichMysterySonSourceSolitudeUnityMysteriousCommunionExtensionsDeitiesFullnessGifts Of LifeMystery Of God Author:Olivier Clement