1 Sep 2008, 1:19am
1. Item Du Jour
by Steve Gillard

The Mystery

The true mystery of the world is the visible,
not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

What some people call “God,” I think of as The Mystery. My artist friend, Joel Burns, gave me a picture of The Mystery.



FOR STEVE - MYSTERY - JMB 2001

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“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds — justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can’t go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”

Anne Rice

Another gift from my favorite artist, Joel Burns, is this image which is clearly the soulmate of Ms. Rice’s observation:

[...] The Mystery [...]

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