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"God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!"
"Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it."
"The sewer is the conscience of the city."
"Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle."
"The sound of water says what I think."
"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water."
"Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth."
"Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges"
"In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water."
"When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization."
"The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master."
"Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief."
"Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect."
"Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King."
"Don't look to anyone for your needs, for the One who created you, waters you."
"Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river."
"I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water."
"Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain."
"There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together."
"The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth."
