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Grant van der Vijver

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"We are alive because the ocean is alive."
Living Sea documentary

"Water is life. ...to be flowing, powerful,  profound, unafraid, balanced,
nourishing, still, and pure - one who follow Tao need only emulate water in every way."
Den Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao

"Like the sea, we are always in motion. The waves loom in our dreams and in our nightmares
through all of time, their rhythms pulsing through us.
They move across a faint horizon ... the rush of love and the surge of grief,
the respite of peace and then fear again, the heart that beats and then lies still ...
the infinite procession of life. The mysteries come forward in waves."
Susan Casey, The Wave

"The true eye of the earth is water. It is the gaze of the earth, it's instrument for looking at time.
In our eyes, it is water that dreams."
Paul Claudel

"And we made from water every living thing."
The Quran, Surah Al-Anbiya 21:31

"We are made from weather and all our thoughts stream from the braidwork of stillness and storms"
Gretel Ehrlich

"...we are able to think because our brains are afloat on water's buoyancy."
Theodor Schwenk

"All that we do is touched with ocean,
yet we remain on the shore of what we know."
Richard Wilbur

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water."
Bruce Lee

"The highest good is like water.
Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.
It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao."
Tao Te Ching

"To get the best stuff you have to be out of your depth.
It's when you're drowning that you really learn"
Bono

"Dive deep oh mind,
Into the ocean of divine beauty.
You will discover a new gem,
Instant after instant."
Yogic epigram

"I submerge, open my eyes, and dream."
Wolfgang Leander

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water.
...relax and float"
Alan Watts

"Scientists must be made to realize that water is not something to be handled carelessly,
like an inanimate object. Water is not merely H2O, but a living organism
with its own laws commanding respect from mankind, if the consequences are not to be fatal."
Viktor Schauberger

"I need the sea because it teaches me"
Pablo Neruda