“Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.” GrowsWaterKnowledgeGrassReeds Author:Christine Downing
“The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty. When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward for satisfaction, yet we never find enough to fill the emptiness we wish to escape. The real hunger we feel is for knowledge of our true nature.” FeelsLooksRealEnoughLostWishWaterNatureKnowledgeDrinkingGreedHungerSatisfactionEmptinessInwardTrue NatureThirstySalty Book:The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep Source: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
“Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.” PainWaterKnowledgePureSpringApplicationDiggingTroublesomeWithout PainPure Water Author:Tom Felton
“Before I had studied Zen for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and waters as waters. When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and waters are not waters. But now that I have got its very substance I am at rest. For it's just that I see mountains once again as mountains, and waters once again as waters.” YearsWaterKnowledgeSawsMountainSubstanceIntimateThirtyThirty YearsZen MasterZen Buddhist Author:Li Ching-Yuen
“If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward from above, as ice gets thicker while the frost lasts; we should not try to freeze upwards from the bottom.” IfsShouldTryingLastsScienceFoundWaterKnowledgeBottomIceFreezeFrostSkatingExtending Book:The Essential Samuel Butler Source: The Essential Samuel Butler