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Notes From the Cosmic Sea
We need the presence of mystery in the same way that the coherence and beauty of a landscape require the presence of a horizon, whether as a line defining the field of vision or as a dark boundary that gives sharper definition to the world that is illuminated. Or as language needs the refreshment of silence. We need a sense of communion with that w... See more
the hedgehog review • Mystery
Keely Adler added
… the foundations of every philosophical question: what is the important reality - the shape of the cosmos or the tangible facts of life on earth? And what is the relationship between them? In a world that is full both of stars and of unsuspected pitfalls, which is the reality to which we should attend? What is it to understand Being? To think only
... See moreAdam Nicolson • How to Be
Debbie Foster added
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
... See moreAlex Dobrenko added
Mystery is an encounter with an unsearchable reality, an acknowledgement that the world crackles with possibility because it is steeped in the shocking and unpredictable presence of God.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
And these days I seek out my faith in other doctrines’ – he gestured at a spectrograph nearby, and a four-inch reflecting telescope fitted with filters to aid in observations of the sun. ‘I supplement God with physics, and understand each as well as the other. Which is to say: not in the least! But I find it magnificent, knowledge piled on knowledg
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
Human concepts can only approximate the holy transcendence that cradles existence itself. Even our most correct perceptual and existential paradigm is going to be inadequate. Concepts are maps, models. And all models are wrong, as the saying goes, but some are useful. The inadequacy of the map may be vexing in its inherent omissions, but nonetheles
... See moreSonya Mann • What is God?
Stuart Evans added
I'm no longer religious, but I understand religion, even if I don’t believe in one. More so, as a storyteller, I understand faith, which includes religion, but it also counts many other ways of looking at the world around us. I’ve determined that faith provides a language for the unknown when we need it. It allows us to talk about the things we can
... See moreThe Loren Ipsum, by Daniel Herndon • On Being Indignant
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