“Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.” MomentsSufferingNamesProcessBornExistenceGrowingSeaDyingPeriodsLifetimeTinyWanderSymbolsWheelsPerpetualAgain And AgainReincarnationUp And DownGrowing OldFractionsSingle LifeSamsara Author:Gautama Buddha
“It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.” MenForeverSeaPoetCriticismCriticsWanderRegionsOld ManEnchantment Book:Select Poetical Works Source: Select Poetical Works
“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.” TruthLyingPleasureSeaAdventureHonorBattleStandingWindowErrorsShipsWanderShoreCastlesMistTempest Book:Complete Essays Source: Complete Essays
“It constantly amazes me that men and women wander the earth marveling at the highest mountains, the deepest ocean, the whitest sands, the most exotic islands, the most intriguing birds of the air and fish of the sea - and all the time never stop to marvel at themselves and realize their infinite potential as human beings.” MenHumansEarthRealizingHuman BeingsAirSeaMountainOceanHighestBirdMen And WomenInfiniteCatholicFishesWanderIslandsSandExoticIntriguingInfinite PotentialMarveling Book:The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose Source: The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose
“I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.” MenYearsStillsTurnsWaitingRoomsSeaPicksYears AgoDown AndTrainEastMagazinesWanderBoardsFiftyShopsChairsThreadSheetsDentistDrillsBarbersWaiting RoomsTrimmingCockpitBarber Shop Author:E. B. White
“But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.” WorldSoulBodySpeakVoiceLosesSeaSolitudeEmbraceAwakeningWanderContemplationSpellsInwardVagueAbyssDisturbingChaoticWhisperingSeductiveInvitingMazesSensuousTumultMurmuring Author:Kate Chopin
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” HomeDreamForceLosesSleepImagineAirSeaSkyBalanceComfortTravelEssentialsEternalAll ThingsSightStrangerFamiliarWanderAround The WorldTime TravelTraveledTravelerBrutalityTravel WritingGreat TravelInspiring TravelTravel The WorldTravel AdventureAdventure And TravelLife Is An AdventurePhotography And TravelInspirational AdventureRoads TraveledLife AdventureAdventure And LifeBackpackingTravel AbroadTravel JourneyRoads And JourneysInspirational Adventure TimeSea And SkyCosta RicaSleep DreamFeet And TravelTravel And LoveFamiliar ThingsComfort Of HomeLove AdventureStrangers And FriendsWeary Traveler Author:Cesare Pavese