Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) Welsh journalist and explorer
Quotes:, Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909)
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart
Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) Welsh journalist and explorer
Quotes:, Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909)
“Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.”
Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist
"The Art of Fiction" - interview by Robert Faggen, The Paris Review No. 130 (Spring 1994) <!-- p. 92 -->
Context: I'm for mystery, not interpretive answers. … 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, but 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.
“May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Park Chung-hee (1917–1979) Korean Army general and the leader of South Korea from 1961 to 1979
Diary entry (October 1974), as quoted in The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History Revised and Updated http://books.google.com/books?id=yJZKpYXh2SAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Two+Koreas:+A+Contemporary+History+revised+updated&hl=en&sa=X&ei=X-xvU5TRFPOisQSa34CIBA&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=already%20into%20the%20last%20week&f=false (2001), by Don Oberdorfer, p. 55. <br class="br">1970s
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
The Time of the Turning
Song lyrics, OVO (2000)
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) Flemish mystic
The Spiritual Espousals (c. 1340)
Context: You should watch the wise bee and do as it does. It dwells in unity, in the congregation of its fellows, and goes forth, not in the storm, but in calm and still weather, in the sunshine, towards all those flowers in which sweetness may be found. It does not rest on any flower, neither on any beauty nor on any sweetness; but it draws from them honey and wax, that is to say, sweetness and light-giving matter, and brings both to the unity of the hive, that therewith it may produce fruits, and be greatly profitable. Christ, the Eternal Sun, shining into the open heart, causes that heart to grow and to bloom, and it overflows with all the inward powers with joy and sweetness. So the wise man will do like the bee, and he will fly forth with attention and with reason and with discretion, towards all those gifts and towards all that sweetness which he has ever experienced, and towards all the good which God has ever done to him. And in the light of love and with inward observation, he will taste of the multitude of consolations and good things; and will not rest upon any flower of the gifts of God, but, laden with gratitude and praise, will fly back into the unity, wherein he wishes to rest and to dwell eternally with God.
“The snow covers many a dunghill, so doth prosperity many a rotten heart.”
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
page 87
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652
Thomas Campion (1567–1620) English composer, poet and physician
Cherry Ripe http://www.bartleby.com/106/91.html