“Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.” IfsThinkingMenYearsStillsEarthFacesWaterCommonSunMysteryTreeGreenShiningFingersDepthLakesQuartersMudLimbsSkeletonsMuddySun ShinesSlimeCypressesCypress Trees Author:Irvin S. Cobb
“I accept that life is uncertain--that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing--a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty.” LifeLife IsCertainNextGoalWaterAcceptingKnowingMysteryMiraclePeacefulCertaintyFaithfulRelaxNot KnowingUncertain Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.” HeartRealHandsBeautifulWaterNatureClearMysteryTreeEqualShadowGreenHopefullyLandscapeHeightLife And DeathDivisionShadeFar AwayPurpleSolemnHushReassuringMystery Of LifeHands UpTree Tops Book:The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit Source: The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit
“Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water; water that seems alive, always rushing past yet never going, always the same yet ever different. Was it perhaps similar feelings of awe that gave rise to the first animistic religions, the worship of the elements and the mysteries of nature over which there was no control? Only when our prehistoric ancestors developed language would it have been possible to discuss such internal feelings and create a shared religion.” FirstsHas BeensDifferentFeelingsSeemsPastLanguageWaterAliveMysteryElementsWorshipAweInternalsAncestorRespondingRushingChimpanzeesPrehistoricMystery Of Nature Author:Jane Goodall
“The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.” StillsLyingWaterClearMysterySeedsPerceiveStreamsStillnessMuddy Author:Laozi