“Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising.” DreamForeverMysteryMouthsUnderstoodRiversStonesGrassRisingGravityMarvelousAllegianceLambs Book:Evidence: Poems Source: Evidence: Poems
“Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and tired librarians. Like everything of importance since the invention of the cloak and the shroud, its origins are cloaked in mystery and shrouded in secrecy. Some scholars believe that the first instance of book burning occurred in the Middle Ages, when a monk was trying to illuminate a manuscript. All agree that book burning was almost non-existent during the period when books were made of stone.” TryingFirstsBelieveChildrenHas BeensMadeBookAgeSchoolMysteryMiddleCenturyPeriodsStonesImportanceAgreeTiredAtheistInventionInstanceBurningCustomsCommunistScholarCharmingMonkRivalsSecrecyMiddle AgesLibrarianFascistsAntiquityManuscriptsCloaksShroudsBook Burning Author:Richard Armour
“God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.” MayLittlesMysteryStonesIllIntellectLife And DeathLabourGrantsAssuredFrailEdificeMystery Of Life Author:Louis Pasteur
“O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones.” GivingLyingMysteryChildhoodCryFlowerColdStonesLipsSupremeNakedReveriePrecious Stones Author:Stephane Mallarme
“Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.” WayChristianSpiritualitySecretMeditationMysteryMountainDiversityUniqueRiversStonesJewJudgedUnity In DiversityTolerance And Diversity Author:Rumi
“Every pellet has a story all its own. Every pellet has a story all its own. With its fur and teeth and bones And one or two stones, Every pellet has a story all its own. We shall dissect every pellet with glee. Perhaps we'll find a rodents knee. And never shall we tire In the sacred task that we conspire, No do our work less perfectly And those bright flecks at the core, Which makes our hearts soar, Shall forever remain the deepest mystery. - The owlets in the Pelletorium at St. Aegolius” HeartTwoStoriesForeverMysteryStonesTasksSacredBonesCoreTeethKneesSoarTireFurGleeRodents Book:Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians Source: Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians
“How little we have, I thought, between us and the waiting cold, the mystery, death--a strip of beach, a hill, a few walls of wood or stone, a little fire--and tomorrow's sun, rising and warming us, tomorrow's hope of peace and better weather . . . What if tomorrow vanished in the storm? What if time stood still? And yesterday--if once we lost our way, blundered in the storm--would we find yesterday again ahead of us, where we had thought tomorrow's sun would rise?” IfsWayLittlesStillsLostWaitingSunFireMysteryWallColdTomorrowStonesWoodsStormYesterdayWeatherHillsBeachRisingWhat If Author:Robert Nathan