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“The Master doesn't try to be powerful;
thus he is truly powerful.
The ordinary man keeps reaching for power;
thus he never has enough.

The Master does nothing,
yet he leaves nothing undone.
The ordinary man is always ding things,
yet many more are left to be done.
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Therefore the Master concerns himself
With the depths and not the surface,
With the fruit and not the flower.
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Teaching without words,
Performing without actions:
That is the Master’s way.
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The Master arrives without leaving,
Sees the light without looking,
Achieves without doing a thing.
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The Master is above the people,
And no one feels oppressed.
She goes ahead of the people,
And no feels manipulated.
The whole world is grateful to her.
Because she completes with no one,
No one can complete with her.”
― Lao Tzu

“Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.”
― Paul Morabito, Mirrored Voices: Emerging Poets Anthology

“That is the definition of truth, it is the thing you must not say. “The miracle into which the child and the poet walkâ€� [Tsvetaeva] as if walking home, and home is there…The thing that is both known and unknown, this is what we are looking for when we write. We go toward the most unknown and the best unknown, this is what we are looking for when we write. We go toward the best known unknown thing, where knowing and not knowing touch, where we hope we will know what is unknown. Where we hope we will not be afraid of understanding the incomprehensible, facing invisible, hearing the inaudible, thinking the unthinkable, which is of course: thinking. Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort. Painting is trying to paint what you cannot paint and writing is writing what you cannot know before you have written: it is preknowing and not knowing, blindly, with words. It occurs at the point where blindness and light meet. Kafka says—one very small line lost in his writing—“to the depths, to the depths.”
― Hélène Cixous, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing

“The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Trying to keep up appearances is a signal of decay on the inside. Beware shallow living—in yourself and in others. It is only in the depths that life can thrive.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.”
― Richard Ellmann

“Sometimes we all want to disappear in the depths of an infinite path and the reason of this is obvious: We all come from the depths of infinity!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There can be great depths of love that are not reciprocated.”
― Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl

“To your simple existence, do not boast;
merely to breathe or move or think is not to live.
The shore of the sea is but a ghost,
compared to the depth its wholeness gives.
You exist in the miry foam;
make the ocean depths your home.”
― Craig Froman, An Owl on the Moon: A Journal From the Edge of Darkness

“What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sweet on the street, alpha in the sheets.”
― Liz Reinhardt Steph Campbell

“I will talk about truth again, without which (without the word truth, without the mystery truth) there would be no writing. It is what writing wants. But it â€�(the truth)â€� is totally down below and a long way off. And all the people I love and whom I have mentioned are beings who are bent on directing their writing toward this truth-over-there, with unbelievable labor; they are fighting against the elements and principally agains the innumerable immediate exterior and interior enemies.”
― Hélène Cixous, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the depths of self, and all of humankind.”
― Madelaine Standing, Heaven In The Meat Packing District

“For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Laisha had got a glimpse of the vast ocean that lay before her. She could either eatch it recede from her sight or plunge into it. It was not possible to take the risk of plunging headlong into the ocean. No one viewed the ocean to be drowned into it. Everyone caught only a glimpse of it, exulted in having got this farand returned home with renewed zest. The knowledge that the ocean existed was overwhelming enough. One could wallow in the idea that there was indeed a further possibility, but one merely desisted. it was not right to acknowledge that one was also frightened of it.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya

“Make the depths of the stillness as your teacher, and then it will make you the teacher of the depths!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A man cannot understand hunger, until he has swum in the depths of hunger”
― David Rea

“So many people are tired of a shallow life and mediocre relationships. They want to know if there is more. They're asking: is this all there is to life... and love? No way! I want more... more intimacy... more passion... more desire. I want to feel alive in my own skin. I want to go deeper. What they are really asking for without knowing it is more sensuality. Why? Well, because life without sensuality has no depth. It's dull, boring and depressing.”
― Lebo Grand, Sensual Lifestyle

“Already this sun was pouring its wrath into the blue Indian ocean where swordfish and marlin cruised like silver-blue attenuated warheads in their green-gold depths...”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

“Love can take one over the clouds, out to space
And also to the depths of the Earth where you get trapped and coming back feels like a forgotten dream..”
― Luna Marym