Excerpt from "My Grandfather's Blessings"
By Rachel Remen

“A sense of Mystery can take us beyond disappointment and judgement to a place of expectancy.  It open in us an attitude of listening and respect.  If everyone has in them the dimension of the unknown, possibility is present at all times.  Wisdom is possible at all times.  The Mystery in anyone may speak to them and heal them in the grocery store.  It may speak to us and heal us too.  Knowing this enables us to listen to life from the place in us that is Mystery also.  Mystery requires that we relinquish an endless search for answers and become willing to not understand.  That we be open to witness.  Those who witness life may eventually know far more than anyone can understand.

Perhaps real wisdom lies in not seeking answers at all.  Any answer we find will not be true for long.  An answer is a place where we can fall asleep as life moves past us to its next question.  After all these years I have begun to wonder if the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.”