The Mystery

There is nothing beautiful
or sweet or great in life
that is not mysterious.
The erotic touch that stirs our desire,
the majesty of a rainbow from horizon,
the feelings of power in a sacred place,
the voice of a deceased ancestor in our ears,
the unconditional love of a pet dog.
-Francis Rene de Chauterbriand

mystery

Rainbow at Findley State Park last week....beautiful.....ehh?? Love, Michele

“The answer is never the answer.
What's really interesting is the mystery.
If you seek the mystery instead of the answer,
you'll always be seeking.
I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have,
so they stop thinking.
But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery,
plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.
The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
-Ken Kesey

Infinity of the Human Soul

Sad Eyes by Michele


And when we look into the face of another person, we look into the infinity and the mystery of the human soul, and when we look into the mystery and the infinity of the human soul, it mirrors the infinity and the mystery back into our soul, and that’s what connects us with this infinite field of universal love -Jean Watson

mystery

This is a mystery....please help us.
Marko has been taking pictures throughout the house and Mark downloads them for him.
This is a picture that Marko swears is of his eyeball.
It is obviously an Asian person...there are no pictures like this in our house nor could it be any of our asian friends. He, swears up and down, that he took a picture of his eyeball.
Any ideas????
As a baby he used to love the "om mani padme hum" chant.
Om mani padme hum is probably the most famous Mantra in Buddhism, the six syllabled Mantra of the bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteshvara. The Dalai Lama is said to be an incarnation of Avalokiteshvara, so the Mantra is especially revered by his devotees. Thus the six syllables, om mani padme hum, mean that in dependence on the practice of a path which is an indivisible union of method and wisdom, you can transform your impure body, speech, and mind into the pure exalted body, speech, and mind of a Buddha. In other words...be love...are the words that comes to mind..that is my translation anyway...but I am "simple"...like one of the teachers in my highschool Mr. Phillips said about me ...."don't listen to her...she's simple."
Marko used to repeat this "Om Mani Padme Hum" phrase and even knew how to press a sound file to hear it when he was 14 mos.
I think all kids are special and wise beyond their years when they are born....and they slowly learn to follow the ego more and more.

Mystery beyond comfort

It is natural, even instinctive to prefer comfort to pain, the familiar to the unknown. But sometimes our instincts are not wise. Life usually offers us far more than our biases and preferences will allow us to have. Beyond comfort lie grace, mystery, and adventure. We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.
-Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom