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Quotation Tuesday 17!

This Tuesday I chose a very old quote for Quotation Tuesday. It was originally written in the 19th century by poet and philosopher Henri-Frédéric Amiel, but it's more relevant now than ever.

"Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring" --Henri Frederic Amiel

Every few years, farmers will leave a field fallow (meaning they won't grow a crop there or turn the soil) to let the soil rest. In the long run, the ground will be more productive that way, rather than growing crops on it continuously year after year until the soil is depleted and tired.

I like the idea of leaving a fallow field in your heart. If you're not a fan of the flowery 19th century wording, take the first phrase of the quote by itself and you'll still get the point. Let mystery have its place in you.

That means not having to have the answer to every little question about yourself. Why do you get melancholy on the first cold day of every autumn? Why do you feel a special warmth towards businesses with spelling mistakes on their signs?

You don't have to know. You don't have to always make sense. There can be a little part of your head that is a wild, tangly section.  Like maybe you throw all your thought compost there, and then a few months later discover a vine growing bigger and better than any of the plants you planted on purpose.  It's all a metaphor of course. But the moral of the metaphor is to let mystery have a little space in your head where it can rest and grow.

-Brigitte