“As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.” TryingDifferentEnoughCharacterFactsProcessSubjectsSourceSurfaceNovelistsLayersQuestioningReportersObservingBeneath The Surface Author:Amy Waldman
“In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.” YearsWellsIdeasEnoughTimeResultsPayFiveGreaterFeetSourceInvolvedThousandResourcesYears AgoInvestmentDeeperSurfaceOilOperationsMore TimeTexasNatural Resources Author:Alfred Armand Montapert
“Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.” ThinkingWayHumansShowsRealityHuman BeingsSimpleTreeFlowerSourceBirdStonesDepthAppearanceConnectedSurfacePerceiveLayersUnfathomableIceberg Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing to the surface every raw and honest emotion. The moment an actor pretends, he loses his audience forever” ArtMomentsActorsLosesActingEmotionAudienceForeverHonestSourceBecomingPerformancesSurfaceLofty Author:Masiela Lusha
“... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas.” IfsWantIdeasEarthBeautifulCertainCoursesEasyLosesSourceRiversOneselfSpreadSurfaceCirclesPrimitiveVagueViciousObscurityRegularityVicious CirclesVague IdeasBeautiful River Author:Lazare Carnot
“Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through it s black water to the place we cannot breathe will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear, nor find in the darkness glimmering the small round coins thrown by those who wished for something else.” KnowsWellsStillsBlackWaterGriefSecretDarknessClearSourceColdDrinkRoundsSurfaceBreatheThrownSlipsCoins Author:David Whyte
“Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity.” TryingMindCreativitySeaSourceQuietDrawsEmptyWaveSurfaceMoodCalmnessRestlessnessTranquilContemplativeVacant Author:Sri Chinmoy
“Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life. Nourishment of the feeling level is the basis for growth of the spiritual holistic value. Delicate behaviour on the surface should be such as to nourish, uphold and enhance the Transcendental value where feelings merge into a common source.” IfsShouldImportantFeelingsSpiritualValuesGrowthLossLevelsCommonCommunicationSourceBasesAccomplishSurfaceDamageDelicateBehaviourGrossNourishmentHolisticTranscendental Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“When the ice of winter holds the house in its rigid grip, when curtains are drawn against that vast frozen waste of landscape, almost like a hibernating hedgehog I relish the security of being withdrawn from all that summer ferment that is long since past. Then is the time for reappraisal: to spread out, limp and receptive, and let garden thoughts rise to the surface. They emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.” LongFactsPastHouseSecuritySourceWasteSummerGardenWinterSpreadSurfaceIceLandscapeStillnessFrozenCurtainsJanuaryRelishReceptiveHedgehogs Author:Mirabel Osler
“If you're going to live in the anxiety of the surface of this world, you're never going to find the depth, the source. If you want calmness, you've got to go deeper.” IfsWorldWantThis WorldSourceAnxietyDepthDeeperSurfaceCalmness Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.” SoulHardEyeTurnsGrowsCausesWaterNaturalWindSourceReturnBreathsWingsSurfaceSettingSettingsStreamsHis EyesPassagesLoved OnesEchoesSmoothRoutesFeathersArrivingRebound Author:Plato