“Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.” ThinkingWayLifeSometimesUsePainBeautifulJoyFallSoundWaterPrayerSilenceSkyPrayingHappeningsVery GoodCrowdsOddOver YouFourthFloatsRocketsJulyVery Beautiful Author:Frederick Buechner
“Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.” ThinkingLifeHardHandsYoungWaterSimpleSunSafeFingersCupsNoticing Author:Jean Anouilh
“Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.” LifeLife IsWaterTinyInstantLakesLeapBubblesInchesTremblingGlitterRippleBlurMinnows Author:Austin O'Malley
“In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.” LifeEarthLife IsWaterAirBirthDrinkBreatheGravesCradleBurstingNature Life Book:Studies in animal life Source: Studies in animal life
“I accept that life is uncertain--that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing--a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty.” LifeLife IsCertainNextGoalWaterAcceptingKnowingMysteryMiraclePeacefulCertaintyFaithfulRelaxNot KnowingUncertain Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.” LifeSoulPainPassionWaterPleasureBreathsWaveBarkPain And PleasureWhat Is LifeWaveringTroubled Waters Book:Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard Source: Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard
“So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.” LifeMindFacesWaterQuietFlowCalm Author:Thich Thien-An
“The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.” LifeSometimesFallForceWaterSunBallsDepthCastsShootingThrownRaysFountainUp And DownCatchingUps & DownsVicissitudesGildedShooting Up Author:Lady Randolph Churchill
“Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.” LifeWellsLongDreamMotherThreeWaterHealingVisionPrinciplesSpecialExampleSourceBirthHolySpringHundredRainTraditionRiversUniversalPatientAncientMedicalParanormalFeminineGoddessSiteFountainWombGreeceSymbolicSpecial PlacesFertilityAncient GreeceRefreshmentsGreat Mother Author:Christopher McDowell