Quotes about Deep
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. —FROM "THE SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN
- Frank Herbert
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
- Joseph Campbell
Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.
- Edith Wharton
Reverence is that affection of the soul that proceeds from deep apprehensions of God and signifies a mind that is much conversant with him.
- Richard Baxter
Perhaps the True Self--and the full Christ Mystery (not the same as organized Christianity)--will always live in the backwaters of any empire and the deep mines of any religion.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
If people are to develop any deep spirituality today, and especially if men are to develop spiritually, they need to be liberated from self-serving worldviews.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The deep and abiding significance of Saul's encounter is that he hears Jesus speak as if there's a moral equivalence between Jesus and the people Saul is persecuting.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
More than anything else, the Spirit keeps us connected and safely inside an already existing flow, if we but allow it. We never "create" or earn the Spirit; we discover this inner abiding as we learn to draw upon our deepest inner life.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Myth is, in fact, something that is so true that it can be adequately expressed only in story, symbol, and ritual. It can't be abstracted and objectified. Its meaning and mystery are so deep and broad that they can be presented only in story form. When you step into a story, you find it is without limits and you can walk around with it and inside it. It is natural to sing, dance, and reenact a story. It is too big and too deep to be merely "understood" or taught.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
- William Wordsworth
Even though the body appears to be material, it is not. In the deeper reality, your body is a field of energy, transformation and intelligence.
- Deepak Chopra
Sunset and evening star,And one clear call for me!And may there be no moaning of the bar,When I put out to sea,But such a tide as moving seems asleep,Too full for sound and foam,When that which drew from out the boundless deepTurns again home.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson