“Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.” MindNaturalClearMeditationImagineSkyEmptyCalmCloudsSurfaceDisappearLakesStillnessImagine ThatRipple Author:Kathleen McDonald
“Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize yourself going deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean, feel that a profound peace is entering you.” FeelsImagineOceanSilentProfoundDepthCalmDeeperSurfaceImagine ThatEnteringSereneVisualizationBeneath The SurfaceBelow The Surface Author:Frederick Lenz
“Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.” LyingFoundImagineSurfaceMaskImagine ThatCanvasDisregard Author:William Merritt Chase
“I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon...Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.” ShouldBelieveWellsImagineMoonFinancialSurfaceAstronomyEnormousBudgetsExplorationWorthwhileImagine ThatNasaSlag Author:Fred Hoyle
“Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.” TryingChildrenWholeBodyPainMotherHellImagineMereFingersSpreadSurfaceYour BodyTouchingImagine ThatFractionsFingertipsStoves Book:The Rector of Justin Source: The Rector of Justin
“Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.” ThinkingMenHardLevelsAttentionWiseImagineOne ThingFoolMetsEqualPaidAbsolutesSurfaceStoresGiantsSuperiorityExclusiveCommonplaceTextureDwarfs Author:William Hazlitt
“When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance.” IfsEyeLyingGivenGrowsWaitingChanceRichImagineSurfaceSeedsSoilNurtureGardenerFertileSowingGiven A ChanceSowing SeedsFertile Soil Author:Steve Goodier