It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
“from Pearls and Poison… “In two minutes the cops are going to come barreling though that door,” I whispered to Auntie KiKi… — Duffy Brown Copy Share Image
'De nada,' replied Gregorius. The Portuguese couple sat down, the train went on. Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“But the christian story of God the Father putting his son to death, or employing people to do it, (for that is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“The name Mary Jo Quinn was written neatly in faded blue marker on the front of the scrapbook, its gray edges frayed… — Nancy Barr Copy Share Image
“I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson," said he. "When your round is a short one you walk,… — Sir. Arthor Conan Doyal Copy Share Image
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“I do not possess the ability to draw or paint. I can’t sing or dance. I can’t knit or sew. But I… — Aubrey Becker Copy Share Image
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery.… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are like waves in the ocean, each with a unique character and quality on the surface, but deep down we are… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Quoting geneticists, Guy Murcia says we’re all family. You have at least a million relatives as close as tenth cousin, and no… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Never carry things on from the past. The past is gone. Every moment be rid of it, solved or unsolved. Drop it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
Life holds many, many, many mysteries, abstract things we all think about. In a film when things get abstract, some people don't… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“People are going to say a lot of things. And some of it will be helpful, and some of it will be… — Michelle Falkoff Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century, The Romantics viewed Nature as benign, a glowing reflection of God's grace. Now we know better. Nature is… — Richard Yancey Copy Share Image
There is a still place, a gap between the worlds, spoken by the tribal knowings of thousands of years. In it are… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Some people love magic for the right reasons: They love to experience wonder. They don't want to know how it works. In… — Justin Willman Copy Share Image
We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When I look at Perfidia, I think, "That's a Pulitzer Prize winner. That's a National Book Award winner." It's not going to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Do you see this lantern? cried Syme in a terrible voice.'Do you see the cross carved on it, and the flame inside?… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
