Witter Bynner (1881–1968) American author
Translation of Laozi's Tao Te Ching.
The Way of Life, According to Laotzu, 1944.
Witter Bynner (1881–1968) American author
Translation of Laozi's Tao Te Ching.
The Way of Life, According to Laotzu, 1944.
“Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you.”
Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
The Book of Wisdom
Context: Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. They end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.
“For four years, from an artistic point of view, I lived from wonder to wonder.”
The Mother (1878–1973) spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo
On her four years stay in Japan from March 1916, quoted in Japan (1916- 1920) http://www.searchforlight.org/TheMother_lifeSketchpart5.htm
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and …
“Sometimes I wonder if it does exist such a thing called personality.”
Giovanni Morassutti (1980) Italian actor, theatre director and cultural entrepreneur.
From the official website
“To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.”
Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) American author
Quoted in The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith (1979)
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
Gerry Spence (1929) American lawyer
Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 6 : The Power of Prejudice : Examining the Garment, Bleaching the Stain, p. 98
Source: How to Argue & Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Everyday