“There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.” MenHoursLosesMysteryCapableOrdinaryCharmImmortalPossessedDecayEntityUnseenDisturbingIntriguingOrdinary ThingsHimalayasAlps Author:Frank Smythe
“Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.” KnowsMindStoriesCertainMysteryCapableNotesCombinationChaptersListenersStirringIgnite Book:the elements of style Source: the elements of style
“The first suicide bombing that entered my consciousness was the Beirut embassy bombing. It was very personal. I'd been in the embassy and I knew most of the people in the station who were killed in the bombing. So you take the personal aspect of it and the mystery of who the bomber was and the fact that a small group of people could drive us out of a country that was absolutely key to the United States, and what was behind this... The fact that they've been able to hide the embassy bombers' identities for all these years tells me we're up against a very capable movement.” PeopleCountryConsciousnessMysteryIdentityCapableSuicide Author:Robert Baer
“When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.” ThinkingLoveWisdomUnderstandingKnowingMysteryLove YouKeysCapableKnowing ThingsLearning Everything Author:Paulo Coelho
“it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” MenMeanReasonFactsFormLiteratureQualityDoubtMysteryAchievementCapableNegativeUncertaintyReachingCapabilityPossessed Author:John Keats
“To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.” WorldLostTermLosesMysteryArmsCapableSurrenderUncertaintyFadesSurroundingsLosing YourselfFade AwayVoluptuous Book:A Field Guide to Getting Lost Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost