Things People Keep To Themselves

Are Known Without Being Taught

Become Less Useful Once Explained

Become Less Valuable When Shared

Become Weaker When Shared

Begin As Questions

Conceal

Create Illegibility

Create Longing

Create Obscurity

Create Surprise

Create Uncertainty

Disturb

Erode

Exist Only As Records

Invite

Invite Exploration

Leave Open Questions

Leave Openings

Need A Specialist

Occupy Attention

Organize Attention

Refuse Invisibility

Refuse To Stay Background

Resist Interpretation

Reward Absence

Reward Curiosity

Reward Secrecy

Spoil

Unravel Slowly

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is a mystery only when it does not even come out that mystery is at work.

We Japanese have-I think I may say so-an innate understanding for your kind of reserve. A mystery is a mystery only when it does not even come out that mystery is at work.

Mysteries are due to secrecy. Francis Bacon

is in everything in the world, but is more evident in certain things than in others: In the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music. Jorge Luis Borges

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is not to be confounded with strangeness.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. Arthur Conan Doyle

is rooted in evil, just as knowledge is rooted in pain.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. Simone Weil

is that to whose grandeur the mind ought to be enlarged, rather than that the mysteries be contracted to the narrowness of the mind.

Let the mind be enlarged. . . to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind Francis Bacon

1s 2eginning point is the point at which religion ends.

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