In everyday English, the word “‘mystery” implies a puzzle to be solved, a conundrum to be unraveled.
The idea is that if you think about a problem long enough, you will find a solution.
In the East, on the other hand, a mystery is an area where the human mind cannot go, where the heart alone makes sense-not by knowing, but by being. The Greek word mysterion leads you into a sense of “not knowing” or “not understanding” and leaves you there.
Having arrived, all you can do is gaze and wonder; there is nothing to solve.
Bread &Water, Wine & Oil: An Orthodox Christian Experience of God
by Archmandrite Meletios Webber
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