Status Updates From The Sea Within: Waves and t...

“Our time-saving devices have turned us into worried slaves instead of leisured masters.”

“By listening to God, I learn to listen to others, to the sea-depths in others, where the Spirit of God moves like swells. And only when I listen to others do I understand myself.”

“She is the great antidote to the poison Solzhenitsyn called “hastiness and superficiality.”

“In a word, God happens. I hear God. The sea is His tongue. He speaks to me there. He assured me that He is still in charge, that there is beauty forever beyond the reach of human folly and selfishness.”

“That puts us in danger of forgetting Lesson One, how little we know. The sea is one of the few remaining reminders of this...”

“On that inner sea of the human heart there has been an inner storm ever since we left Eden.”

“You can test a man’s attitude towards women by asking him why the sea is a woman.”

“The angel station is not Analysis but Intuition.”

“...he has to believe that that feeing is false, stupid, wrong, pointless, and out of tune with reality, since reality is nothing but chance and gravity and molecules. That feeling of cosmic gratitude and praise was a temptation to be “religious”.”

“For an atheist, I think the most terrible moments must be the moments of joy, when there arises from his heart the wisest and best feeling anyone can have— cosmic gratitude, praise for his very existence and that of the universe and...”

“For most of us, the most terrible moments in life are the moments of grief; when hope is tested.”

“What a terrible moment that must be for an atheist— when he feels great gratitude for the gift of the sea and there is no one to thank for it.”

“Another reason why the sun naturally symbolizes God is because its matter naturally symbolizes spirit.”

“People come to disbelieve in miracles only when they forget the most massive and obvious of all miracles, nature itself; and that’s hard to do when you live by the sea.”

“A miracle is an act of God. The sea is a miracle not only because it is an act of God, but also because it is an act of God. It’s not just a thing, it’s a deed, or a word. It doesn’t just exist, it speaks.”

“The art of sign reading. It assumes that nature is not just a thing but also a sign, like a word, and therefore is not just to be looked -at but also looked-along. This habit of sniffing facts and missing the signs pervades our whole modern culture.”

“I believe that every fact in Nature is a revelation of God, is there such as it is because God is such as He is...”

“God both heals and destroys by water,”

“...it shows itself most powerfully in the sea. We never feel more humble and helpless than when we face the sea- and we never feel happier.”

“What is the spiritual power of matter?”

“Whatever we get bored with is smaller than us. Our souls eat it and are still hungry, still empty.”

“There are two philosophies: one that says that the sea is surrounded by the land, the other says that land is surrounded by the sea.”

“The pagan mistake of seeing too much in her is not as bad as the modern mistake of seeing too little.”

“The modern mistake is ridiculously simple: a confusion between what something is and what it’s made of.”

“We know that we will outlast the sea. In fact, we will outlast the stars. When all the stars are dead, each one of us will be alive. Knowing that frees us from the ancient temptation to worship the sea, or the earth, or the stars...”

“They know the seashore is the natural symbol of death...”