“Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths”
― The Direct Path: Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Using the World's Spiritual Traditions
― The Direct Path: Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Using the World's Spiritual Traditions
“Jiko: "Surfer, wave, same thing."
"That's just stupid, " I said. " A surfer's a person. A wave is a wave. How can they be the same?"
Jiko looked out across the ocean to where the water met the sky. "A wave is born from deep conditions of the ocean. A person is born from deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and rolls along like a wave, until it is time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
"That's just stupid, " I said. " A surfer's a person. A wave is a wave. How can they be the same?"
Jiko looked out across the ocean to where the water met the sky. "A wave is born from deep conditions of the ocean. A person is born from deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and rolls along like a wave, until it is time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
“I am carving myself into a shape
that no one will recognize
because it is better being the marble
than the monster.”
― Wrong Side of a Fistfight
that no one will recognize
because it is better being the marble
than the monster.”
― Wrong Side of a Fistfight
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