Surface Quotes

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Many times when I stop working on a problem consciously, my mind continues to work on it below the surface. Often solutions come on me… — Marilynne Robinson
There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie… — Jacques Maritain
The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth. — Joseph Campbell
Perhaps the most reliable route to meaning and joy, to plunging below the surface and seeking more than the superficiality of material ambition, is connection… — Michael Short
To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface… — Walt Whitman
It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the… — Italo Calvino
Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love. I now allow this love to flow to the surface. — Louise Hay
When you find yourself in a new situation, everything that requires healing is going to rush to the surface. — Iyanla Vanzant
As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the… — B.K.S. Iyengar
We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface… — Philippa Perry
We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish, and for some equally strange reason we think other people can… — Earl Nightingale
Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can… — Diane Dreher
The more that you need a relationship, the less you are able to be in a relationship. The more that something on the surface can… — John de Ruiter
When we don't enjoy what we do, we only nick the surface of our potential. — Dennis Wholey
If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are… — Carl Jung
The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the faÃ§ade of conventional gestures and… — Thomas Merton
The cell, too, has a geography, and its reactions occur in colloidal apparatus, of which the form, and the catalytic activity of its manifold surfaces,… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the divine and heavenly… — John Cassian
A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing. — Dolly Parton

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