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“When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.”

Way Feels Moving Water Ordinary Strive Extraordinary Chaos Deeper Surface Stillness Shifting

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream, a hinterland of energy which has an independent existence of its own and laws of its own: laws which motivate all our thoughts and our actions.”

World Dream Action Law Lying Energy Existence Normal Ordinary Conscious Independent Everyday Surface Impulse Our Thoughts Our Actions Casual Beneath The Surface

Book:The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue

Source: The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre, Reissue

“Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.”

Ifs Thinking Should Mind Seems Atheism Habit Ordinary Positive Atheism Surface Creeds Anarchism Bullied Renunciation Pacifism Habits Of Mind Dirtiness

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.”

Life Reality Earth Approach Ordinary Direct Universal Surface Realism Universality Direct Approach

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“Living in intention through acceptance, responsibility, pro-active choice, and the willingness to be ordinary, will move fear aside and allow intuition to surface. All of those skills teach us to be inner focused and aware of who we are becoming. That is powerful. That changes lives.”

Moving Choices Powerful Responsibility Teach Power Acceptance Becoming Skills Ordinary Intention Intuition Active Focused Surface Life Changing Who We Are Willingness

Book:Fearless Living

Source: Fearless Living

“It can be helpful to remember that the enlightened mind and the ordinary mind are two sides of the same coin. The mind is like the sea, which can be rough on the surface, with mountainous waves stirred up by ferocious wind, but calm and peaceful at the bottom. Sometimes we can catch sight of this peaceful mind even in times of trouble. These glimpses of peace show us that we may have more inner resources to draw upon than we had realized. With skill and patience, we can learn how to be in touch with our peaceful selves.”

“The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.”

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Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in a world where certain conservative aspects had become intellectually dominant. I would actually argue against that, but on the surface of it, in the [Bill] Clinton years the market economy triumphed, certain libertarian ideas became ordinary, and certain early-20th-century ideas about centralization of government and economic planning and socialism with a small "s" had obviously gone out the window. The Cold War was over, blah blah blah.”

“It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.”

Believe Soul Artist Humanity Stars Sky Worst Greatness Produce Circumstances Ordinary Adversity Surface Awakening Canvas Sublime

Author:Richard Paul Evans

“I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I sound as though I’m joking, I know, but I should truly hate to be like Leanne, so charming and ordinary and stuffed with clichéd feelings. I’m glad I’m the ice maiden. Who wants to be crying over every stray dog? Not I. Scratch my surface and what do you see? More surface.”

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Book:Chime

Source: Chime

“Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.”

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Author:Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra