The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven. . . in the ponds broken off from the sky. . .
A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.
If I like you, I'm going to tell you. I'm a hugger, even with men: I'm just very deep.
If you are in a deep dark well with no rope to climb, hold on to the hope, because it is also a strong rope!
Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.
Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down. "
Every single day there are communities and people in communities who are hurting in real deep ways. The problems that they're suffering from are very nuanced, but they're granular in nature and they require real intentional planning in order to begin to lift the burden off of some of these communities that have been generationally and inter-generationally plagued by those kinds of problems. The challenge will remain. Whether we can rise to it, will the establishment rise to those challenges is a different question.
I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.
The more I have deep love and compassion for my earth and my fellows, the more love and compassion I have for myself, and vice versa.
Financial markets. . . resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.
The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.
Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.
When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.
The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything.
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.
Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone.
Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice. . . . Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is serene. It is amazing. It is radiant.
Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.
Dennis Lewis has a deep understanding of the central importance of breathing, in both its physical and spiritual dimensions
Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.
