Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have sworn...as the white horses of the wave crests are to pull of the moon.
A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it's time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.
Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.
For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ from it only by having a smaller wavelength.
You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.
God is in you as the ocean is in the wave.
Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don't underestimate your power.
You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean.
Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.
A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
