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“Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.”

Grows Water Knowledge Grass Reeds

Author:Christine Downing

“The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty. When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward for satisfaction, yet we never find enough to fill the emptiness we wish to escape. The real hunger we feel is for knowledge of our true nature.”

Feels Looks Real Enough Lost Wish Water Nature Knowledge Drinking Greed Hunger Satisfaction Emptiness Inward True Nature Thirsty Salty

Book:The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

Source: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.”

Pain Water Knowledge Pure Spring Application Digging Troublesome Without Pain Pure Water

Author:Tom Felton

“Before I had studied Zen for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and waters as waters. When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and waters are not waters. But now that I have got its very substance I am at rest. For it's just that I see mountains once again as mountains, and waters once again as waters.”

Years Water Knowledge Saws Mountain Substance Intimate Thirty Thirty Years Zen Master Zen Buddhist

Author:Li Ching-Yuen

“If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward from above, as ice gets thicker while the frost lasts; we should not try to freeze upwards from the bottom.”

Ifs Should Trying Lasts Science Found Water Knowledge Bottom Ice Freeze Frost Skating Extending

Book:The Essential Samuel Butler

Source: The Essential Samuel Butler

“Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.”

Thinking World Kind Reason Success Social Water Money Business Knowledge Air Subjects Self Improvement Standing Academic Business Success Housing

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.”

Trying Stills Water Knowledge Patience Settling Mud Be Patient Muddy

Author:Laozi

“Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.”

Water Knowledge Stones Devotion

Author:Sylvia Fraser

“When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.”

Firsts Children Doe Soul Desire Heaven Water Moral Knowledge Drink Taste Intellectual Garden Fruit Delicious Glimpse

Book:Slavery

Source: Slavery

“Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and understanding of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health: a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination.”