Quotes about Mystery

Stop trying. Stop forcing reality. Learn the mystery of surrender and trust, and then it will be done unto you, through you, with you, in you, and, very often, in spite of you.

The Holy Spirit is that aspect of God that works largely from within and "secretly," at "the deepest levels of our desiring," as so many of the mystics have said.

Life is a luminous pause between two great mysteries, which themselves are one.

Like the Christ Mystery itself, the deep feminine often works underground and in the shadows, and—from that position—creates a much more intoxicating message. While church and culture have often denied the Divine Feminine roles, offices, and formal authority, the feminine has continued to exercise incredible power at the cosmic and personal levels.

Myth is, in fact, something that is so true that it can be adequately expressed only in story, symbol, and ritual. It can't be abstracted and objectified. Its meaning and mystery are so deep and broad that they can be presented only in story form. When you step into a story, you find it is without limits and you can walk around with it and inside it. It is natural to sing, dance, and reenact a story. It is too big and too deep to be merely "understood" or taught.

mystery isn't something that you cannot understand -- it is something that you can endlessly understand!

Falling upward is a "secret" of the soul, known not by thinking about it or proving it but only by risking it—at least once.

God has to work on the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening and what Mystery-Transformation-God-Grace will eventually ask of us we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process. No one oversees his or her own demise willingly even when it is the false self that is dying.

We are not just humans having a God experience. The Eucharist tells us that, in some mysterious way, we are God having a human experience!

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.