“Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.” SometimesAsksHeavenPrayerPathOne ThingIntentionArguingMysteriousAddressesAllowingDelayQuarrelsHybridDubiousMysterious Things Author:Jose Saramago
“I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways.” WayHumansPersonsMadeTogetherLife IsIndividualGrowsHuman BeingsCasesOne ThingRelationMysteriousGentlenessBearableLife TogetherUnbreakableMysterious WaysUnbreakable Bonds Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter
“There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.” WritingFoundProcessOne ThingBeing TrueMysteriousBegets Author:Dorianne Laux
“One thing is that life's great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what's been lost and freeing what's been enslaved .” MomentsLostSimpleOne ThingFindingsMysteriousEvolveCooperationNudgeGreat Moments Author:Bill Hybels
“That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on language, which activates words as a portal back into experience. It's a mysterious process that's very hard to articulate, because it's focused entirely on the material of language in a way, but in the interests not just of language itself whatever that would mean - that's the mistake, by the way, that so many so-called "experimental" poets make - but in service to human experience.” WayHumansMeanHardLanguageProcessInterestMistakeFocusOne ThingPoetMaterialsFocusedIntenseHorribleMysteriousHuman ExperiencePortalHorrible ThingsActivate Author:Matthew Zapruder