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Mystery
IN MODERN thought the awareness that there is something out there that we are not yet awake enough to see is the engine that drives the investigative mind. Relentless and systematic questioning: this is the spirit of scientific intelligence. In this spirit we dissect to see what connects, we dismember to understand the whole, we kill to catch life
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Thirty years ago, I saw mystery as a country to be vanquished. Today, I see mystery as a place in which to dwell.
If I wanted someone to blame for my early animosity to mystery, there are probably two culprits: fundamentalism and philosophy. I came to the Christian faith, from an unchurched background, by way of a fundamentalism that, now looking ba
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the presence of mystery in the world is an invitation to wonder, and a world without mystery is a world of despair.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
Navigating mystery humbles us, reminds us with every step that we don’t know everything, are not, in fact, the masters of all.
Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature,” he wrote in 1932. “And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”
Meghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Curiosity engages the unknown and relishes in the process of coming to know; it is that path (and not solely the path’s destination) that we celebrate in our writing.
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
Given our puny knowledge, we can’t not accept living in the midst of mystery. It is precisely because mystery exists and is so great around us that those who claim to hold the keys to the mystery cannot be trusted.