“How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along.” IfsHas BeensRunningLyingWaterClearPureWelcomeStreamsPouringRefills Book:The Dog Stars Source: The Dog Stars
“Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.” TwoTimeWaterDestinyFishesBreatheOur DestinyPouring Author:Louise Erdrich
“We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.” WayFirstsLastsUniverseIndividualWaterFireRelationBreathsAffairDawnSunsetCosmosGet BackRitualHouseholdVividNoonPouringKindling Author:D. H. Lawrence
“It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers...I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God.” ThinkingIdeasHardLightAgeSpiritualYoungReligionFatherProcessWomenVoiceWaterAnswersTelevisionIntellectualConversionYoung AgeDeitiesBishopsPouringCatechismBlinding Light Author:Susan Jacoby
“In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission.” HumansSoulWholeSidesWaterRaceBloodTerribleHuman RaceAgonyPouringPierceLamaRemission Book:Sermons on the Blood and Cross of Christ Source: Sermons on the Blood and Cross of Christ
“Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is always asked about Lake Erie: how can we restore it? I believe the only valid answer is that no one knows. For it should be clear that even if overnight all of the pollutants now pouring into Lake Erie were stopped, there would still remain the problem of the accumulated mass of pollutants in the lake bottom.” IfsKnowsWayShouldBelieveStillsProblemI BelieveWaterAnswersClearMassCrisisImpactEnvironmentalBottomMeaningfulLakesPouringMost MeaningfulEnvironmental CrisisLake Erie Author:Barry Commoner
“Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it” IfsLife IsBitsWaterScaredBottlesLife Is LikePouringCoca Cola Author:Olive Ann Burns
“I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.” WaterDecidedDown AndSatLife And DeathPouringJugs Author:David Shrigley