Quotes About Depth

The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the will is stirred And that is a deeper place by far. That is the place of response, of unifying one's heart, mind, soul and feet around a decision.

The road of 'God alone' struck me with unsettling fear. So I lingered in a kind of limbo. Unable to go back, unable to go on. Uncertain. Tentative. How strange that we tend to stand ankle-deep in the spiritual life even though the grounding depth of intimacy with God is the most nourishing experience of our lives and affirms our very being!

At crucial times we must seek out periods of inner solitude, deep brooding and being, intervals of spiritual apartness where we move down into the depths of ourselves to mine the dark gorge and bring new treasure into the light.

the idea of existing beyond the patriarchal institution of faith, of withdrawing our external projection of God onto the church is almost unfathomable. . . . We think there's nothing beyond the edge. No real spirituality, no salvation, no community, no divine substance. We cannot see that the voyage will lead us to whole new continents of depth and meaning. That if we keep going, we might even come full circle, but with a a whole new consciousness.

Leaning back on my elbows, I slid down till the water sealed over my head. I held my breath and listened to the scratch of river against my ears, sinking as far as I could into that shimmering, dark world.

I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.

The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

struggling to compress the vastness of what I felt into words.

La mayoría de nosotros aceptamos involuntariamente una vida superficial, pero rodeándola de gran misterio.

He who only sees the obvious, wins his battles with difficulty; he who looks below the surface of things, wins with ease.

How many selves do we contain, like Russian dolls concealed within one another.

Love was both the softest edge and the sharpest edge of what made life real.

Back then, Miss Sarah pulled words up from her throat like she was raising water from a well.

La sabiduría esencial de la imagen fotográfica afirma: «Ésa es la superficie. Ahora piensen —o más bien sientan, intuyan— qué hay más allá, cómo debe de ser la realidad si ésta es su apariencia».

No book is worth reading once if it is not worth reading many times.

The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: 'There is the surface. Now think—or rather feel, intuit—what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature." —Henry David Thoreau Walden, "The Ponds

Love isn't always all perfume and magic. It has a physical side, one that has nothing to do with tender feelings, fluttering hearts, sentimental poetry.

The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by

Mon âme a tant d'âges Je me baigne dans une eau où je ne suis pas

there is a lot more where that came from, thats just the tip of the iceberg"

No outsider can understand a relationship between two people.' Hell, sometimes even the people in the relationship couldn't understand it.

It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set. Depth beats breadth any day of the week, because it opens a channel for the intangible, unconscious, creative components of our hidden potential.

If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.