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“Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm, moist and dry - a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.”

Body Water Emotion Sea Effects Taste Bird Conscience Warm Smell Dry Sand Weary Outlook Dwelling Spit Bathing Bodies Of Water Sea Birds Bleaching

Book:Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat

Source: Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat

“Just as ripples radiate from the place where a stone is thrown into a pool of water, our sometime-unconscious thoughts, feelings, emotions, and beliefs create the “disturbances” in the field that become the blueprints for our lives.”

Feelings Belief Water Emotion Our Lives Fields Stones Unconscious Thrown Pool Ripple Disturbance Blueprints Unconscious Thoughts

Author:Gregg Braden

“Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.”

Soul Peace Water Emotion Divine Violent Your Soul Lakes Disturbed Tempest

Book:I leap over the wall: a return to the world after twenty-eight years in a convent

Source: I leap over the wall: a return to the world after twenty-eight years in a convent

“Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.”

Littles Character Feelings Water Lines Views Emotion Seeking Pockets Neglect Cracks Straight Lines Fracture Trickle Down Neediness Crevice

Book:I

Source: I

“Tears are perhaps 1% water but 99% emotions. They contain hurt, pain, sorrow, disappointment, sadness… so cry sometimes and let go of the feelings welling in your heart. Crying won't necessarily solve your problems but it will make you feel better.”

Feels Heart Sometimes Feelings Problem Pain Water Hurt Emotion Sadness Cry Tears Sorrow Letting Go Disappointment Solve Feel Better Hurt Pain

Author:Rita Zahara

“This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.”

World Mean Feelings Water Emotion Bird Reflection Flying Detached Blocked Sticky Bird Flying

Book:This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

Source: This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience