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“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“Every object in nature is impressed with God's footsteps, and every day repeats the wonders of creation. There is not an object, be it pebble or pearl, weed or rose, the flower-spangled sward beneath, or the star-spangled sky above, not a worm or an angel, a drop of water or a boundless ocean, in which intelligence may not discern, and piety adore, the providence of Him who took our nature that He might save our souls.”

May Soul Might Stars Water Nature Wonder Sky Creation Objects Flower Ocean Angel Rose Repeats Weed Providence Impressed Adore Pearls Worms Piety Boundless Footsteps Pebbles Drop Of Water

Author:Thomas Guthrie

“I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.”

Water Dark Oblivion Dropping Sinking Pebbles

Book:Firelight

Source: Firelight

“At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, and towards afternoon, the water descends wildly and she ravages all in its path, the madwoman. That is how death comes. Without our expecting it, and we cannot do a thing against it, brothers.”

Water Walks Path Fate Dog Brother Mountain Rain Rivers Stones Cat Dry Afternoon Expecting Noon Pebbles Cat And Dog

Author:Jacques Roumain

“The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind — with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.”

Mind Home Body Water Practice Path Return Speech Mindfulness Eating Breathe Cooks Leafs Garbage Toilets Pebbles

Book:Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966

Source: Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966

“The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.”

May Book Moving Form Order Water Tree Understood Window Clouds Patterns Chinese Beach Sand Crystals Frost Pebbles Moving Water

Book:Tao: The Watercourse Way

Source: Tao: The Watercourse Way