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"The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths."
"When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect."
"The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience."
"Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time."
"Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world."
"A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life."
"The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us."
"In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite."
"The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself."
"The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant."
"The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up."
"The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth."
"The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality."
"I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth."
"Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment."
"It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel."
"There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths."
"Success comes from taking the initiative and following up or persisting."
"What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?"
"A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known."
