"The fact that we can't manage is actually the great blessing of being alive..."

"The fact that we can't manage is actually the great blessing of being alive, because it's only the people who can manage that don't learn anything. The rest of us can't "handle it," which is known as [attending] the school of life.”

- Reggie Ray, 1997

Let your life be a

mystery. We are always trying to figure out who we are and what our

life means, but this leads nowhere. In fact, we may find that the more

ordeals we pass through and the more wonders we see, the more the

mystery of our existence deepens. And maybe the final truth of our life

lies precisely in that ever-deepening unknowing. - Reggie Ray

We spend our life trying to judge, evaluate, and make sense of everything that happens. But we need to realize that, in a certain sense, the jury is always out on everything. Perhaps we will never live outside of the mystery of ourselves and perhaps that is the essence of wisdom. – Reggie Ray