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“Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.”

Mind Brain Sea Conscious Ships Mysterious Obscure

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love - the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun, all that we mean when we speak of the external world. I want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious, direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.”

World Want Humans Mean Earth Speak Understanding Loses Human Beings Wonder Sun Sea Conscious Adults Direct Contact Breathing Superficial Breathing Life Understanding Myself

Book:Stories. Selected,

Source: Stories. Selected,

“I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.”

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grandstyle." He has lived in Homer till he can recall the roll of that many-sounding sea. He has pored over the lofty and pictorial thought of Plato till he begins to pique himself upon its grandeur. His fancy has been fed on the quaint old-world genius of Herodotus, his judgment on the melancholy wisdom of Tacitus and the complacent cynicism of Gibbon--and of all this he is conscious and proud.”

“I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."”

Writing Real Character Dark White Race Sea Lucky Conscious Continents Outsiders Portuguese Main Characters

Author:Jon Weisman

“To save the seas, we can eat sustainably and be conscious of the seafood we eat.”

Sea Conscious Seafood

Author:Carl Safina

“How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.”

Mind Dark Ability Consciousness Knowing Sea Conscious Remarkable Portions Floating Conscious Mind Jellyfish

Book:The Story of a Marriage: A Novel

Source: The Story of a Marriage: A Novel