“Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.” WholeDesireMysterySeaSpeechLipsBeachShellsEchoesSigh Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material.” WholeSpiritualFormParentLordTreeCreationMaterialsFruitSeedsShellsKernel Book:Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120 Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120