EVEN AN AVERAGE-SIZE ICEBERG is pretty enormous. The largest recorded, located off Antarctica, measured more than 4,200 square miles. What makes an iceberg so impressive, however, is not just its immense visible surface, but the fact that about 90 percent of its total mass is actually under water.
Looking at an iceberg is a bit like grappling to understand the deeper things in life. The small portion that is visible to the eye doesn't even begin to speak for the whole. What appears on the surface is only a fraction of the total substance.
Everyone would like to feel they are perceiving life fully and accurately. But is a deeper awareness of life possible—an awareness that transcends the perception of the superficial? The "surface" of life could be thought of as that which can be perceived through the five physical senses. A deeper perception, therefore, would have to be one that is nonmaterial, one that perceives spiritual substance.
