Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss."
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Mystery
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Francis Bacon
Philosopher, Statesman
"Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love"
Rene Magritte
Surrealist Artist
"The purpose of art is mystery."
Esther Perel
Psychotherapist, Author
"Mystery is not always about travelling to new places, it is about looking with new eyes."
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"Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?"
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"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."
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"Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery."
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"The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and ourselves are united in one mystery."
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"No one can give you any answers. There aren't any. You have to discover for yourself-you must learn to navigate the mystery."
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"She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows."
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"Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind."
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"The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain."
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"I and this mystery, here we stand."
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"Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities."
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"The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe."
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"Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it."
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"Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that."
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"We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small."
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"I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share."
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"Photogenic is a stupid, nonsensical word, but it is also a great mystery."
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"Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations."
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"We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle"
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"And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again."
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"I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself."
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