“Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.” KnowsGivingArtIdeasFormCreativityAirMysteryInspiredPatternsEncountersNew Ideas Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.” IfsKnowsBelievePastI BelieveMysteryConnectionsPatternsMythRepeatsCantOld Proverb Author:Ashwin Sanghi
“There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here before," we think to ourselves, "and this is one of my true homes." It is no mystery for those philosophers who hold that all which we shall see, with all which we have seen and are seeing, exists already in an eternal now; that all those places are home to us which in the pattern of our life are twisting, in past, present and future, tendrils of remembrance round our heart-strings.” ThinkingFirstsHeartHas BeensHomeSeemsPastOur LivesSeeingMysteryEternalFirst TimeRoundsPatternsPhilosopherStrikesStringsRemembranceChordsRecollectionPast PresentPast Present And FutureTrue HomeHeart Strings Author:E. C. Bentley
“It seems to me that I have always wanted to say the same things in my books: that life is one, that mystery is all around us, that yesterday, today and tomorrow are all spread out in the pattern of eternity, together, and that although love may wear many faces in the incomprehensible panorama of time, in the heart that loves it is always the same.” HeartMayBookSeemsTodayWantedTogetherFacesLife IsMysteryTomorrowEternityPatternsSpreadYesterdayToday And TomorrowPanoramaMany Faces Author:Robert Nathan
“Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a "stable pattern of inorganic values." The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.” WorldProblemValuesProcessTermMysteryObjectsPatternsDisappearSubstanceStableReverseUnifiedContainment Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ...What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.” KnowsFeelsLittlesDoePastArtistNightStarsMysteryPoetMerePatternsHarmDesertGasAtomsMarvelous Author:Richard P. Feynman
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.” MenWorldMadeHandsWhiteMysteryBecomingMountainStandingFlowAll ThingsDestructionPatternsEdgesCurrentsStreamsMapsBrooksPolishedMossMazesAmberTroutRoad MapsFinsWonder And Mystery Book:The Road Source: The Road