12 posts tagged “ocean”
'It may be when we no longer know what to do,
'So you tell yourself
'wish i was ocean size
'You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.'
'In learning to call on the medicine of any person, creature, or natural force, one must maintain an attitude of reverence and be willing to accept assistance. For instance, small native children know that if they are lost, they may call on the medicine of their parents. This brings to the child the strength of the parents, even though they are not physically present. The parents will feel the pull of the child's need, and oftentimes will be able to see psychically through the eyes of their child and determine its location. This is a kind of power that comes from the idea of unity, and of each being having within itself a part of all other beings. It is the law of oneness.
'Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.'
- Erica Jong
'Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.'
- John Updike
'Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.'
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
'The future belongs to those who prepare for it.'
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out." ~Annie Dillard, via QuoteGarden.com.