~Jetsuma Tenzin Palmo

 There are many levels of consciousness beyond the surface consciousness of our thinking. If we think of the mind like an ocean, then we could say that our ordinary conceptual thinking mind, which is where we normally operate from, is like the waves on the surface of the ocean, with our emotions as the undercurrents. We do not normally know anything about the depths of that ocean, the depths of our consciousness, because we are living on the surface of awareness."