“Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.” ArtRealNaturalMysteryShadowServingUnseenUnseen Things Author:Cennino Cennini
“The sacred cannot be precisely defined. Each of us perceives it through the lens of a unique personal history. For me, sacredness is an experience of the inner radiance of life, the unseen force that transforms and nourishes the physical world but is never limited by it. There is something more to it, a mystery that is never totally grasped.” WorldForceMysteryUniqueSacredDefinedPerceiveUnseenLensesRadianceSacrednessPersonal HistoryUnseen Forces Book:The Temple in the House: Finding the Sacred in Everyday Architecture Source: The Temple in the House: Finding the Sacred in Everyday Architecture
“Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people--what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest level of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all.” PeopleKnowsDreamLevelsMysterySourceOceanConsciousDefeatSubconsciousUnseenCoastal Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such exposing of self to dangerous mysteries, such destruction of the understanding as was required to become the slave of unseen powers, did not matter because the communicant was only a woman, in herself an undetermined cipher - a nothing.” Has BeensSelfMatterUsedUnderstandingMysteryDangerousCommunicationDestructionSlaveUnseenConvenienceExposingInaccessibleCiphers Author:Laura Riding
“Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.” WorldWritingTryingHeartEnoughCharacterEyeJoySongGirlForceVoiceWonderNovelGrowing UpGrowingDoorsMysteryFashionDangerUniqueShiningCastsTerrorPursueCuresAwfulMemorableFarmsSurprisingLightningUnseenThrillingIrresistibleNoticingCountrysideOutrunWonder Of LifeUnseen ForcesMemorable CharactersGail Author:Jack Hodgins
“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
“It’s what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It’s the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension.” WantLifeGivingUnderstandingDarknessOur LivesMysteryOne DayDimensionsUnseenDevastationLurking Author:Marisha Pessl