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MYSTERY

Life is neither a question to be answered nor a problem to be solved. It is a total mystery, and no amount of intellectual exercise will ever demystify or explain it. Defying all simple logic, it’s an inexplicable paradox. The more we live, the more we know life; but the more we know, the more life proves to be a mystery.

Analyzing life with the mind is futile. An approach that relies on facts based on observations can only access a tiny part of the whole because a fact is nothing more than a single aspect of the whole. 

It’s easy for our mind to be satisfied with a small detail because we can hold onto such a detail and be certain of its characteristics. But no matter how many facts we discover, we’ll never know the mystery through defined, detached, and indifferent facts.

By relying on the mind, we reduce celebrating the mystery of life to imagining life to be a problem. Mind reduces every wonder to a problem. Problems are fear-based. When we come from fear, information becomes nothing more than a buffer, a defense against the overwhelming and unpredictable mystery of the infinite.

The greatest mystery of all is that we are the mystery—an unknowable “knowingness,” a manifestation of the unknowable whole. The experience of the mysterious comes through our own being because our essence is an expression of the transcendent unknown. 

Consequently, when we dive into our own being, we enter the eternal now, where life invites us to simply be. This infinite here-and-now moment is the open door to the divine mystery. This means that the more we know life, the more we know our One Self.

When we open our One Self to absorb all the beauty in this present moment, we experience bliss. This is because, in this mystery, everything is new and fresh each moment, whereas in the mind everything is always the same—dull, boring, and even death-like. But with awareness, everything becomes fresh, since existence is continually renewing itself. 

Though there’s no way to understand the mystery that’s our essence, there is a way to experience it, to live it, to be it—and that’s through trust.