“The ultimate mystery is one’s own self.”
—Sammy Davis, Jr.
What have you recently uncovered about yourself?
4 thoughts on “The Ultimate Mystery”
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“The ultimate mystery is one’s own self.”
—Sammy Davis, Jr.
What have you recently uncovered about yourself?
Comments are closed.
Another truly thoughtful theme for Compass. Thank you for your continuing questions which stir and inspire contemplation. Here’s a short thought which relates to mystery (small ‘m’ intentional). One would gather that there is huge interest in the genre of mystery stories – novels, TV shows, and the like. The three-fold criteria in solving these episodes are: means, motive and opportunity. I think it interesting to ponder how we “investigate” the mystery of our human condition. What do we make of means, motives, and opportunities in the quest for truth?
Hello Warren, although I will address the “mystery of life” in a second comment on this DC, here are perhaps rather obvious responses to part of your message: MEANS: basically I utilize viewing PBS mysteries (either British or other foreign) although I recently found the Ellen Queen pulp magazine again after a teenage fascination with it; MOTIVES: two fold- first, because I hope I am never in a situation to find murdered bodies somewhere in my environment and second, a relaxing retreat and yet a challenge to solve the culprit’s identity before I finish watching or reading and third : OPPORTUNITIES: multiple, and in our US society, an overload of violence especially with the cops and Rogers(?) aspect.
Recently I have been thinking about the mystery of death; I am older and realizing that it will happen some day or night to ME. I know of the many thoughts and answers that come to many via their religious conviction. As a Unitarian Universalist, I have the option to “choose for myself”. I have decided, at least right now, to settle arrangements for the event and then, put my mind to rest and decide that it truly is a “mystery” and I can’t solve it. Perhaps a flash of enlightenment will come sometime while I’m living, but I will not concern myself in thinking of other thoughts that are derived from prophetic philosophies.
We search from the depths of the oceans to the stars in the heavens to understand life’s mysteries, but we often neglect to discover ourselves in the process. Time to do some real soul searching, and self-examination…think of our hearts as the ocean and our thoughts as the heavens. Explore, and get to know thyself. We may discover some things that we don’t like, but that’s good. It’s natural for us to fear the unknown. But once those hidden things become known, then we can learn from it, however painful or scary it may be.