“We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.” TryingDesireUnderstandingWaterBoatRemoveRubberSuppressionNagging Author:Vernon Howard
“It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures.” MenWorldUnderstandingInterestWaterGreaterSeaCreaturesFindingsRiversCleanFishesSeekingEndlessBoatLakesFishingTranquilityInquisitiveFlowing WaterWild CreaturesWild World Book:Trout on a fly Source: Trout on a fly
“The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But it is evidentthat we are influenced by false principles to that degree as to mistrust our senses, and think we know nothing of those things which we perfectly comprehend.” ThinkingKnowsHumansRealUnderstandingWaterViewsQualityPrinciplesObjectsDegreesEssenceConstitutionSensesSandInternalsGrainSkepticismMistrustFathomDrop Of WaterGrains Of Sand Author:George Berkeley
“Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.” EarthHumanityIndividualUnderstandingWaterFateProgressFailingEconomicCreationDevelopmentModelsConsequenceConcernNegativeRiversEnvironmentalLimitationAcknowledgeConsiderationOur SocietyProvokingTechnologicalNegative Consequences Author:Pope Benedict XVI