“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day, and you will come at last to love the world with an all-embracing love.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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The divine mystery is not to be solved, but to be admired. We do not need to make sense of the world around us, only to appreciate its enigma.
“I began to talk. I talked about summer, and about time. The pleasures of eating, the terrors of the night. About this cup we call a life. About happiness. And how good it feels, the heat of the sun between the shoulder blades.”
— Mary Oliver, from New And Selected Poems, Volume Two