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“Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters' Seas.”

Water Player Sea Masters Swim Strongest Sharks

Book:The Education of a Speculator

Source: The Education of a Speculator

“We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real power of the teacher is to transmit power and knowledge directly to an individual.”

Kind Real Stories Individual Water Walks Teacher Wonderful Masters Great Things All Kinds Enlightened Transmit Real Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.”

Giving Water Masters Cold Starving Thirsty

Author:Miguel

“What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.”

People Thinking Said Reality Water Differences Knowing Seeing Sea Masters Enlightenment Sight Miles Drowning Stormy Stormy Seas

Author:Anthony de Mello

“Master water first and then paint.”

Firsts Water Masters Paint

Author:Joshua L. Goldberg

“As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.”

Mind Stills Two Water Masters Becoming Method Flames Pool Still Waters Becoming God

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“Me having a beautiful wife and great family and friends around me, all the money I've got, all the things that I've got, a Ferrari that I just ripped the top off of and turned into a convertible, the rings I got, the two mansions on the water, a master's in criminal justice, I'm a cop, plus I look good. So me shooting 40 percent at the foul line is just God's way of saying that nobody's perfect. If I shot 90 percent from the line, it just wouldn't be right.”

“Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.”

Way Water Seeing Masters Moon Limitation Zen Master

Author:Pico Iyer

“until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?”

Earth Water Fire Air Masters Elements Air And Water Water And Fire

Author:Eloise Lownsbery

“Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.”

Men May Said Stills Use Body Running Time Water Saws Masters Behavior Ill Great Men Void

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.”

Purpose Passion Water Fire Worst Masters Servant

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.”

May Water Imagination Fire Masters Truth Is Equal Servant Old Proverb

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality

“One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.”