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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine.
How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.
A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.
