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“Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.”

Suffering Left Movement Buddhism Birth Ocean Wave Arise Shore

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”

Source: The microcosm, and other poems

“When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.”

World Heart Enough Pain Joy Fall Identity Birth Ocean Empty Embrace Birth And Death Rise And Fall Joy And Pain

Author:Jack Kornfield

“The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.”

Mean Doe Self Facts Universe Loses Consciousness Birth Ocean Tranquility Sense Of Self

Author:Sam Harris

“From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves. It helps you imagine birth. I want imagination in the photographs I take. It's like a prologue. You wonder, What's going on? You feel something is going to happen.”

Want Feels Helping Light Happens Black Imagination Wonder Imagine Birth Ocean Photograph Wave Appearance Prologue

Author:Rinko Kawauchi

“Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?”

Thinking Way Long Water Four Tears Birth Ocean My Friends Shed Again And Again Long Way

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood.”

Turns Water Sin Consciousness Creation Birth Ocean Rain Rivers Environmental Islands Flood Unconsciousness Elixir Elixir Of Life

Book:Writing from the Center

Source: Writing from the Center

“The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.”

Science Common Air Mankind Birth Ocean

Author:Thomas Jefferson