“Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.” MayMomentsEvilProduceOceanVicesQuittingCeaseIdleAbyssIdlenessCradlePacificOften IsStagnantPacific Ocean Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.” MenMayScienceOceanAccountsFishesCarrieOne ManHerring Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.” MayEndsLastsPastSeaReturnOceanRiversMysteriousStreamsOrigin Of LifeTransmutation Book:The Sea Around Us Source: The Sea Around Us
“You may not need a teacher or you may be drawn to one - everything is individual. But the main thing you need to do is meditate and learn to stop your thoughts and enter into the ocean of infinite awareness. You will be directed from there.” NeedsMayIndividualTeacherAwarenessOceanInfiniteEnlightened Author:Frederick Lenz
“Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.” FirstsHumansMayEarthLevelsSeaOceanIceSea Level Rise Author:John Luther Adams