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"A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom and achieve external power. A yogi sets out to explore his own internal nature, to penetrate the atom (atma) of being. He does not gain dominion over wide lands and restless seas, but over his own recalcitrant flesh and febrile mind."
"Keep puffing on the bubble until it breaks its confining walls and becomes the sea of joy."
"Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks."
"Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns."
"once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet."
"We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew."
"Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life."
"You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters."
"A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas."
"Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that."
"We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea."
"He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea."
"By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea."
"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
"He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground."
"Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws."
"See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all."
"The Person is a bubble on Time's sea."
"Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like."
"The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them."
