Quotes About Depth

Thomas Merton, say it, as he so often does: "A door opens in the center of our being, and we seem to fall through it into immense depths, which although they are infinite—are still accessible to us. All eternity seems to have become ours in this one placid and breathless contact.

To take the Scriptures seriously is not to take them literally. Literalism is invariably the lowest and least level of meaning. Most

Without an inner life, our outer prayer will soon become superficial, ego-centered, and even counterproductive on the spiritual path.

To stay on the surface of anything is invariably to miss its message—even the surface meaning of our sinfulness.

Matter and Spirit mirror one another and reveal the depths of one another.

Any kind of authentic God experience will usually feel like love or suffering, or both. It will connect you to Full Reality at ever-new breadths, and depths "until God will be all in all" (1 Corinthians 15:28).

Unless religion leads us on a path to both depth and honesty, much religion is actually quite dangerous to the soul and to society.

Far too many people just keep doing repair work on the container itself and never "throw their nets into the deep" (John 21:6)

mystery isn't something that you cannot understand -- it is something that you can endlessly understand!

She had always seemed to him to be deep-down wild, the wilder because she harnessed that wildness most of the time.

Far, far below, red liquid bubbled. Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? None of the posibilities were good.

Your head is full of kelp.

All good fairy tales have meaning to many levels, Bruno Bettleheim observes in The Uses of Enchantment. Only the child can know which meanings are significance to him at the moment.

Who can say what astonishments are hidden inside the most mundane being?

She had never looked to see what lay beneath the surface, because the surface was easy enough to polish and keep bright.

In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself.

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story. And somehow, miraculously, a story that comes from deep in my heart calls from a reader that which is deepest in his or her heart, and together from our secret hidden selves we create a story that neither of us could have told alone.

She wasn't scared of going deep, deep down in a world of no air and little light

The Paradox: how do you lose something you never had? The answer: There was another way to have. A transparent stretch of space between you. To love from a distance, through that space, more deeply, more colourfully, so it can be seen from faraway like a flag. Eventually the spave itself fills you. The air entering your body and replacing your blood, running through you. The halfßpleasant feeling of not being here.

I have seen the breadth and depth and width of my mind and heart and seen how frail they both are, and how ultimately unknowable they both are.

But then suppose you stepped into one of those rooms,' he said, 'and discovered another room within it. And inside that room, another room still. Rooms within rooms within rooms. Isn't that how it might be, trying to learn Josie's heart? No matter how long you wandered through those rooms, wouldn't there always be others you'd not yet entered?

Silence is just as likely to indicate the most profound ideas forming, the deepest energies being summoned.

Of course, a human heart is bound to be complex. But it must be limited.

nothing and yet everything had passed between us.