Touring the magical mystery

In the Sun-day mailbox . . .

Love is the ontological “Ground of Being” – Paul Tillich. It is the air that we breathe, consciously or unconsciously, as any true mystic discovers. We do not have to be able to describe this in words to experience it. In fact, we can’t describe it. We can only live it and breathe it. – Richard Rohr

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all. – James Baldwin

Curiosity animates everything. That we cherish art is ultimately more urgently interesting...than why we do. And how we do is just incredibly funny. Contemplating [the how] is like observing the way cats sit solitary by windows or pigeons perch sociably on city monuments. We’re all watching, that is to say, we’re all being watched, and we’re all playing the game in our own fashion, our own inimitable style. – Sebastian Smee on a photograph by Jim Gagnon

“Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so.” — René Magritte in Maria Popova's Marginalian.

The “great mystery” is not a mystery because of all the evil, confusion, misunderstanding, and duality in the world. The “mystery” is great because of all the majesty and beauty in the universe beyond our comprehension.