Kept Silent, It Is Being

"Is not this, perhaps, the secret of every true and great mystery, that it is simple? Does it not love secrecy for that very reason? Proclaimed, it were but a word; kept silent it is being. And a miracle too, in the sense that being with all its paradoxes is miraculous."

— C. Kerenyi, Introduction to a Science of Mythology

C. Kerenyi’s reflection pierces to the heart of myth and mystery: that what is most profound is often disarmingly simple. The greatest truths do not clamor for attention—they retreat into silence, not out of concealment but reverence. To proclaim a mystery is to reduce it to language; to keep it hidden is to let it be. In this stillness, it transforms into something miraculous—not because it defies understanding, but because it quietly transcends it. Being itself, with all its paradoxes, is the miracle the mystery protects.