“Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.” WayRealityGivenWonderMysteryHonestRegardResponseFinalsGrantedRadicalConfrontationGrandeurAmazement Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.” ThinkingWayUnderstandingMy OwnMysteryHumilityEvolutionOffersIncreaseResponseCosmosHelpfulInvokeBiodiversity Book:The Sacred Depths of Nature Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature
“A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.” FeelsHumansSoulUniverseTermHuman BeingsEnvironmentWonderfulMysteryPossibilityBiggerInfiniteResponseSaintDeeperContactGenerousStatureInfinite Possibilities Book:Lent With Evelyn Underhill Source: Lent With Evelyn Underhill
“Sound continues to be a mystery to me, in that one could create infinite songs focusing on the same subject, but depending on the melody, instrument choice, minor or major key, time signature, etc., each song could elicit an entirely different response.” DifferentSongChoicesSoundMysterySubjectsKeysMajorsInfiniteInstrumentsResponseEtcMelodyMinorsSignatures Author:Josh Garrels
“Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.” LaughingMysteryIntellectualLaughterResponseBeaconsInvoluntaryPrisms Author:Dennis Miller
“There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart's response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.” WayHeartUniverseMysteryFundamentalsResponseOrderliness Author:Ajahn Amaro
“It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.” MeanUniverseExistenceMoralMysteryAspectResponseAbsenceCertaintyPerceiveVoidCertainty Of Death Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon