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“The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.”

Knows Way Hard Wisdom Form Sound Water Perfect Know How Cold Drink Perfection Hot Perceive Subtle Drink Water

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.”

Ifs Want Feels Language Wish Water Sea Perfection Lions Founders Monkeys Spiders Seals Slipping

Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated

Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated

“It is about a period in aviation which is now gone, but which was probably more interesting than any the future will bring. As time passes, the perfection of machinery tends to insulate man from contact with the elements in which he lives. The 'stratosphere' planes of the future will cross the ocean without any sense of the water below. Like a train tunneling through a mountain, they will be aloof from both the problems and the beauty of the earth's surface.”

“Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.”

Water Perfection Patience Persistence Strokes Hammers Pebbles

Book:Stray Birds

Source: Stray Birds

“The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was sorrowful. It sang with yearning and sadness, flowing towards its goal ... Siddhartha was now listening intently...to this song of a thousand voices ... then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om - Perfection ... From that hour Siddhartha ceased to fight against his destiny.”

Song Fighting Goal Voice Water Hours Destiny Saws Sadness Listening Thousand Rain Rivers Perfection Yearning One Word Sorrowful Siddhartha Flowing Water

Author:Hermann Hesse

“[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea.”

Past Moving Form Science Water Common Air Sea Future Perfection Shining Assuming Casts Bones Wander Substance Height Exquisite Snowflake

Author:Loren Eiseley

“When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your consciousness is flowing, feel that this gratitude-flow is like a river that is watering the root of the tree and the tree itself. It is always through gratitude that your consciousness-river will grow and water the perfection-tree inside you.”

Feels Heart Grows Water Consciousness Tree Gratitude Flow Rivers Perfection Roots

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been barred and the infinite tide behind is struggling to express itself. These struggles and competitions are but the results of our ignorance, because we do not know the proper way to unlock the gate and let the water in. This infinite tide behind must express itself; it is the cause of all manifestation.”

Knows Way Has Beens Causes Water Results Secret Behinds Struggle Ignorance Evolution Perfection Infinite Competition Manifestation Gates Tides

Book:Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)

Source: Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)

“To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.”

Sometimes Water Drink Perfection Sensuality Sensual Thirsty Drink Water

Author:Jose Bergamin

“A man is an island, but the water is deep And the shore on the other side is ragged and steep To look for perfection is a lonely old ride It takes a whole lot of courage and a whole lot of pride When you look for independence and you get what you want How come you look back, thinking what have I done? But time and again, it dawns on me It's the price we pay for liberty I should have know, we all need a place to call home”

Thinking Knows Men Want Needs Should Looks Done Whole Home Song Sides Water Pay Liberty Pride Perfection Lonely Should Have Independence What You Want Dawn Islands Shore Steep Ragged

Author:Joey Tempest