Life is the ultimate mystery
- A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life. There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness. Albert Pike
- Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough. Ingrid Bengis
- Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don’t miss it. Leo Buscaglia
- Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one. Carl Jung
- Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Mother Teresa
- Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the plot may seem to be lacking, the special effects alone are well worth the price of admission. Derek R. Audette
- Look at this life – all mystery and magic. Harry Houdini
- My life was a mystery even as I lived it. Melissa Gilbert
- Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- The essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We’re involved in a mystery. Edward Hirsch
- The mystery of life–its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or rage or irony, as the moment or situation might dictate, I have pondered and even demanded of cosmic energy to know Why. Theodore Dreiser
- Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. Henry Miller
- We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery. H. G. Wells
- We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life. Jules Renard
- What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells? John Edward Masefield
- Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled skin of an orange that releases its fragrance to our touch, the unfathomable depths of the eyes of our lover. No creation story, no religious system can fully describe or explain this richness and depth. Mystery is so every-present that no one can know for certain what will happen one hour from now. It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life. Jack Kornfield
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…a divine mystery…
- Life is a mystery – mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery. Amit Ray
- My life is … a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though I were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me. Thomas Merton
- I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it. Aldous Huxley
- Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality – about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all. Chinmayananda Saraswati
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…a mystery greater than death…
- Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront. James Frey
- Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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…a mystery that cannot be grasped, understood or explained away…
- Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp. Brit Marling
- Life exists to be a mystery. Kedar Joshi
- The mystery of existence can never be explained away. Life is always more than we think. Tim Freke
- Life is a… mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness. Florida Scott-Maxwell
- Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding. Paulo Coelho
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…especially in words or an ideology
- When all the words have been written, and all the phrases have been spoken, the great mystery of life will still remain. Kent Nerburn
- Human beings have created a mountain of words to explain the nature of reality, but under all the words the mystery of life remains as magnificent as ever. Tim Freke
- As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind. Anthony de Mello
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Life is an unfathomable riddle…
- 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. Harry Emerson Fosdick
- Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries. Dean Koontz
- Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble. Paula Fox
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…that cannot be solved…
- Life is a mystery; don’t waste your time trying to figure it out. Dan Millman
- Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then the doors are open; then you are invited. As a knower, nobody enters the divine; as a child, ignorant, not knowing at all- the mystery embraces you. With a knowing mind you are clever, not innocent. Innocence is the door. Rajneesh
- Life itself is an unsolved mystery”, said the clergyman gravely. Agatha Christie
- Mystery is part of each life, and maybe it is healthier to uphold it than to spend a lifetime in search of half-made answers. Linda Hogan
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…though we can have fun trying through science and art…
- I am satisfied with the mystery of life’s eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvellous structure of existence – as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature. Albert Einstein
- The goal of the artist is not to resolve life’s mysteries, but to deepen them. Jerry Uelsmann
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein
- Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there’s a certain point beyond which you say, “There are no answers.” Ray Bradbury
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…while religion tries to explain it away
- Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone. Marion Woodman
- A religion without mystery must be a religion without God. Jeremy Taylor
- There is no mystery in religion. Swami Vivekananda
- A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Edmund Burke
- It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion. Albert Einstein
- Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery. Ram Dass
- Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers. John Shelby Spong
- God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Richard P. Feynman
- Theosophy, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. Ambrose Bierce
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There is mystery in the way life unfolds
- Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. It is the strange knock at the door, the sudden sight of an unceremoniously blooming flower, an afternoon in the yard, a day of riding the midtown bus. Just to see. Just to notice. Just to be there. Joan D. Chittister
- Life unfolds itself in mysteries ways. Khalil Gibran
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There is mystery in what meaning life holds
- I don’t know the meaning of life. I don’t know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it’s a complete mystery. Charles M. Schulz
- The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I chafed at this state of affairs. But by now I have made peace with it. I even feel a certain honor to be associated with such a mystery. Eugene Wigner
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There is mystery in both the wonderful and difficult aspects of life
- Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. Frederick Buechner
- The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination. Joseph Campbell
- May you find your way through the fathomless mystery of your life to the source of all that is good and true. John Robbins
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved…
- The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. Frank Herbert
- Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved. Albert Einstein
- Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. Gerard Straub
- The mystery of life is certainly the most persistent problem ever placed before the thought of man. There is no doubt that from the time humanity began to think it has occupied itself with the problem of its origin and its future which undoubtedly is the problem of life. The inability of science to solve it is absolute. This would be truly frightening were it not for faith. Guglielmo Marconi
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…but a reality to be embraced…
- Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to get you in the dark. Dean Koontz
- I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it. Aldous Huxley
- Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous! Rajneesh
- The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it. Lewis Mumford
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…for there is joy in mystery…
- Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. Elizabeth Lesser
- Grieve not because thou understand-not life’s mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight. Hafez
- I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life – it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something. Jonny Lang
- If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position… to make all the difference in the world. James Redfield
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…and marvel
- The mystery of life is so enormous it takes my breath away and leaves me speechless. It’s not some riddle I will one day unravel, but real magic to be marvelled at. It’s not a darkness my intellect can illuminate, but a dazzling radiance so splendid that my most brilliant ideas seem dull. Tim Freke
- The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral. Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Of life’s mysteries, love is surely the greatest…
- Love’s over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy. Rabindranath Tagore
- Love is like magic and it always will be. For love still remains life’s sweet mystery! Love works in ways that are wondrous and strange and there’s nothing in life that love cannot change! Love can transform the most commonplace into beauty and splendor and sweetness and grace. Love is unselfish, understanding and kind, for it sees with its heart and not with its mind! Love is the answer that everyone seeks… Love is the language, that every heart speaks. Love can’t be bought, it is priceless and free, love, like pure magic, is life’s sweet mystery! Helen Steiner Rice
- Love is a greater mystery than death. Jo Nesbo
- In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life. Leo Tolstoy
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…except maybe for consciousness…
- Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There’s something deeply mysterious about that. And if you’re not struck by the mystery, I think you haven’t thought about it. Charles Krauthammer
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…and time
- Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Michael Ende
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The mystery of life includes the mystery of birth and death
- Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death. Stewart Edward White
- Life is neither linear nor stagnant. It is movement from mystery to mystery. Just as a year includes autumn and winter, life includes death, not as an opposite but as an integral part of the way life is made. Rachel Naomi Remen
- The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death the whole life is summed up, in death you arrive. Life is a pilgrimage towards death. From the very beginning, death is coming. From the moment of birth, death has started coming towards you, you have started moving towards death. Rajneesh
- If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. Rajneesh
- When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life. Khalil Gibran
- Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp. Brit Marling
- Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop … find Life ambling along beneath us on the Other Side. Sidney Lanier
- The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious. Francine Prose
- Death is the only mystery we all solve. Robin Skelton
- Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can say about it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide and seek and think that no one can see them. Sogyal Rinpoche
- The religious man, the mystic, tries to explore the mystery of death. In exploring the mystery of death, he inevitably comes to know what life is, what love is. Those are not his goals. His goal is to penetrate death, because there seems to be nothing more mysterious than death. Love has some mystery because of death, and life also has some mystery because of death. Rajneesh
- Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it’s what makes life interesting and suspenseful. Jeanne Moreau
- Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret. Stephen King
- If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys. Lucius Shepard
- Death, like birth, is one of nature’s mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same. Marcus Aurelius
- I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it’s a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death. Beth Gibbons
- Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile world- meaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door. Rajneesh
- The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man’s destiny, life, the world. Edgar Morin
- For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. Susan Sontag
- And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject. Oscar Zeta Acosta
- Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark! Henry Vaughan
- And the greatest calamity that has happened to the human mind is that he is against death. Being against death means you will miss the greatest mystery. And being against death also means that you will miss life itself – because they are deeply involved into each other; they are not two. Life is growing, death is the flowering of it. The journey and the goal are not separate; the journey ends in the goal. Rajneesh
- People die and disappear, and we’re left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them. Sam Harris
- There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do. Alan Watts
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