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“Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.”

Firsts Memories Mystery Captivating

Author:Patricia Hampl

“Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.”

Dream Memories Mystery Egypt

Author:Janet Erskine Stuart

“Memory calls us back, Mystery draws us forward.”

Memories Mystery Draws

Author:Jim Hamilton

“To recognize that mystery, we must go down deep into ourselves, into that place where the walls of our being are layered with our own memories. Remember that, as in any pool, when we cast one pebble we will see many, many concentric circles. One memory begets another and then another, building into stories.”

Stories Remember Memories Mystery Building Wall Casts Circles Pool Begets Pebbles

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“I enjoy places that have mystery and atmosphere, perhaps a patina of age, a suggestion rather than a description, a question or two. I look for memories, traces, evidence of the human interaction with the landscape. Sometimes I photograph pure nature, sometimes urban structures.”

Humans Looks Two Sometimes Age Enjoy Memories Mystery Pure Evidence Structure Photograph Landscape Atmosphere Description Interaction Urban Suggestions

Author:Michael Kenna

“Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; caps and bells. And then once more the quiet mystery is present to me, the throng's clamor recedes: the mystery that there is anything, anything at all, let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything, rather than void: and that, 0 Lord, Creator, Hallowed one, You still, hour by hour sustain it.”

Source: The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes

“Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.”

Source: Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982

“But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!”

“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”

Ifs Knows Fall Voice Memories Mystery Height Contemplation Cosmos Sensations Insignificant Spine Pale Blue Dot

Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos