"They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming."
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"Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains."
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"Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar."
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"I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached."
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"Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently."
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"The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth."
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"If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you."
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"I close my eyes, and think of water."
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"The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness."
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"No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!"
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"It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else."
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"Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water."
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"Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing."
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"We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water."
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"Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful."
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"These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession."
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"The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers."
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"Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears."
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"We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions."
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"I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship."
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