The word "mystery" comes from an ancient Greek word that meant "secret, hidden". It's related to the word "mute" which means silent.
We humans are limited in our ability to know and understand what we experience as we live. As a result, we feel that much about life is secret. Much about life is hidden from us.
Things hidden attract us. They feed our curiosity and compel us to ask questions. We ask about life. The answer is silence. Nature is mute about so many things. The gift nature offers us wrapped in muteness is wonder.
So, we live with our questions unanswered. We live with secrets in the presence of a nature that is mute about most of our questions, especially our big ones:
Why are we alive?
Why does anything exist rather than nothing?
Why do the living die rather than keep living? Why do we stop existing?
Why is sex so intimate with both life and death?
Why are the living driven to unite in sex for pleasure, pain and reproduction?
Why sex?
These are the three great mysteries: life, death and sex.
My next three blog posts ask the unanswered questions about these great mysteries that give us the gift of wonder, if we accept it.
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