From Frederick Buechner:
Mystery:
"There are mysteries
which you can solve by taking thought. For instance, a murder mystery whose
mysteriousness must be dispelled in order for the truth to be known.
There are other
mysteries which do not conceal a truth to think your way to but whose truth is
itself the mystery. The mystery of your self, for example. The more you try to
fathom it, the more fathomless it is revealed to be. No matter how much of your
self you are able to objectify and examine, the quintessential, living part of
yourself will always elude you, i.e., the part that is conducting the
examination. Thus you do not solve the mystery, you live the mystery. And you
do that not by fully knowing yourself but by fully being yourself.
To say that God is a
mystery is to say that you can never nail him down. Even on Christ the nails
proved ultimately ineffective."
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