Submerged Quotes - Page 4

• It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Humility, Keys

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.181, New Directions Publishing

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• Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot about working in groups, without being unduly submerged in the group.

  Byron White

  Sports, Integrity, Self

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• Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried and petrified during ages of which we have no record. It seems likely that this habitable world was in former days uninhabitable and, indeed, submerged beneath the ocean. Then, becoming exposed little by little, it petrified in the course of ages.

  Avicenna

  Ocean, Age, Mountain

  Avicenna, Desmond Christopher Mandeville, Aristotle (1927). “De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum, being sections of the Kitāb al-shifâ: The Latin and Arabic texts, edited with an English translation of the latter and with critical notes”

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• There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Lying, Unity

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made me more fearful, and I would later dip cautiously into the outside world, never allowing myself to be submerged completely, and always jerking back into the familiarity of my own life when my senses were overwhelmed. For years I would stand with a foot in each sphere, drawn to the exotic universe that lay on the other side of the portal, wrenched back by the warnings that sounded like alarm bells in my mind.

  Deborah Feldman

  Fear, Years, Feet

  Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound. Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. You see without assistance from the eyes, over distances beyond the visual horizon. There are moments when existence appears independent even of the mind. The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Distance, Home, Eye

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• It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Military, Reading

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.103, Routledge

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• Oh, Al, shut up! Stop criticizing me! First I'm criticized for being a prude and sounding like a social worker or something, then I'm criticized for looking like a cheap broad. How am I supposed to live? Under the water or something, coming up only to say 'I beg your pardon if I disturb you by coming up for air. I'll do my best to remain submerged.'

  Pamela Moore

  Air, Water, Als

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• It was not easy victory in the America Cup. Our boys spent years experimenting with different designs for their boat before they came up with the innovative idea of having a submerged nuclear submarine tow it.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Boys, Years

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

  George Washington Cable

  Land, Silence, Mourning

  George Washington Cable (1988). “The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life”, p.9, University of Georgia Press

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• I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.

  John Steinbeck

  Self, Bored, Sloth

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.318, Penguin

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• Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

  Julio Cortazar

  Eden, Paradise, Nostalgia

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.210, Everyman's Library

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• Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.

  Else Lasker-Schuler

  Grief, My Smile, Should

  Else Lasker-Schüler (2002). “Selected Poems”, Green Integer Books

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• The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much as the public and we were in love with them just the same way. But we were four individuals who eventually recovered our individualities after being submerged in a myth.

  John Lennon

  Music, Believe, Long

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• It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the most grotesque and dangerous superstition ... regarding government, we would still be groaning under the bonds of feudal government ... regarding morals, we would still be having to learn what is virtue and what is vice. To forbid all these discussions, the only ones worthy of occupying a good mind, is to perpetuate the reign of ignorance and barbarism.

  Denis Diderot

  Ignorance, Government, People

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• I just started going to shows. I don't know how submerged I am: I feel guilty that I don't get out more, but I really like being inside the house.

  John Darnielle

  House, Guilty, Shows

  Source: pitchfork.com

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