Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that those who embrace curiosity and imagination are more likely to encounter life's adventures and mysteries, while others miss opportunities due to complacency.
Algernon Blackwood suggests that life offers many adventures and mysterious experiences to those who actively seek them out with a sense of wonder and an imaginative mindset. In contrast, most people overlook these opportunities because they are blinded by their assumptions and fail to recognize the possibilities that exist in their surroundings. By being open and attentive, one can discover the richness of life that lies beyond the surface.
In practice
Use this quote in a speech about embracing creativity and innovation in the workplace.
When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.
Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul and others, personality... The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical.
For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; _x000D_ For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
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