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Many see God in the ocean

• In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness… I see what people call God in all these things. Pablo Casals
• God is a God of galaxies, of storms, of roaring seas and boiling thunder, but He is also the God of bread baking, of a child’s smile, of dust motes in the sun. N.D. Wilson
• On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. Alexander Pope
• The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter. Lucan
• The sea hath no king but God alone. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Think about it: it is easy to see God’s beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life? Harold S. Kushner
• Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. Brigham Young
• Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed. Patti Smith

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Some equate God with the ocean

• God, I suggest, is an ocean. God is the ocean. And, some complications: Sometimes we’re the sea itself, more often we’re in a small boat sailing on the sea. God above, God below, God all around: In all the ten directions just God. James Ford
• We are all swimmers in God’s mighty sea. Henry Van Dyke
• He fills heaven and earth as the ocean fills the bucket that is submerged in it, and as the ocean surrounds the bucket so does God in the universe He fills. “The heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee.” God is not contained: He contains. Aiden Wilson Tozer
• I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea. George MacDonald
• It is our duty to look to God’s commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His purposes. The decrees of God are a vast ocean, into which many possibly have curiously pried to their own horror and despair; but few or none have ever pried into them to their own profit and satisfaction. Thomas Boston
• Very high, very grand, and very wise is the ocean of God, the Water of Life. You went after the form and were lead astray. How can you see it? You abandoned the truth. Sometimes it is named “tree,” sometimes “sun,” sometimes “ocean,” sometimes “cloud,” one thing from which scores of discoveries arise, its slightest definition an everlasting life. Rumi
• As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God. Isaac of Nineveh

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God is an ocean and we are a glass of water

• God is like the ocean and we’re like that glass of water. We try to sustain life and do all that the source tells us that we are capable of doing, but if we do it alone, we wither away and collapse instead. Wayne Dyer
• If you take a glass of water and separate it from its source – the ocean – then pour the water away from its source and ask it to sustain life, it flitters away. It just evaporates. It can’t sustain life. That’s a metaphor for us when we separate ourselves from our source and believe that God is separate from us. Wayne Dyer
• Like a cup full of water from the ocean, there is no difference between the contents of the cup (us) and the ocean (God). And when this creation comes to an end, the water in the cup is poured back into the ocean. But in the meantime we are on a free will trip living an adventure in physical reality. Bernard Haisch
• To me the perfect metaphor for God is the ocean: huge, mighty, powerful. We are within that ocean. Take a glass and scoop some water at the shore.  What is in that glass?  It is the same thing. Yet it would be foolish to think that the water in that glass could swamp a ship. But pour your glass back into the waves and now what is possible?  The same is true of you.  Richard Hayes
• Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot. The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’. Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside. One feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words. Ramakrishna

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The ocean, like God, is seething with power and energy

• There are times when the ocean is not the ocean – not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon. L. Stedman

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The ocean, like God, is infinitely vast

• If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean. Patrick Ness
• The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea. John Ruskin
• It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God’s great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one. Elbert Hubbard
• God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small. John F. Kennedy

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The ocean, like God, is unfathomable

• A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God! William Beveridge
• As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could understand would be no God. If we could grasp Him, He could not be infinite. If we could understand Him, He could not be divine. Charles Spurgeon
• If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is? Mahatma Gandhi
• I have a thousand brilliant lies for the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun and the Ocean Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth, O someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly Laughing Now! Hafez
• Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. What a stunted, insignificant god that would be! If my mind is the size of a soda can and God is the size of all the oceans, it would be stupid for me to say He is only the small amount of water I can scoop into my little can. God is so much bigger, so far beyond our time-encased, air/food/sleep-dependent lives. Francis Chan
• Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss. Matt Chandler

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The ocean, like God, is pure abundance

• If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.  Romana Maharshi
• The abundance of God is like a mighty ocean, so vast you cannot possibly exhaust it or cause a shortage for others. You can go to this inexhaustible ocean with only a small cup and bring away only that small cup of bounty and blessing. Or, if you have faith enough, you can take a bucket and bring away a bucketful. It makes no difference to the ocean. Nor does it matter how often you go. Abundance is always there. Henry Thomas Hamblin
• So loving is the universe, so joyful, so determined to give us everything we need and to love us and show us the way to live, too, that we are beaten to the ground, boiled by God’s waves, as we play in the surf. Sophy Burnham

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The ocean, like God, is the personification of love

• What is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it…it can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog, hidden behind a curve of roads and then suddenly there in full glory. It’s waves come like breaths, in and out, body stretched to forever in it’s possibilities, and yet it’s heart lies deep, not fully knowable, inconceivably majestic. Deb Caletti
• Like a wave on the ocean I will always come right back to you. Hunter Hayes
• God’s love is like an ocean. You can see its beginning, but not its end.  Rick Warren
• Love isn’t just something we feel for others, it’s who we are. Though we usually think of love as a stream of emotion flowing between two people, love is more like an ocean that’s inside and all around us. Instead of walking around with a little cup, begging for a few drops of love from others, recognize that you’re the huge ocean of love. Marci Shimoff
• Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away. Sarah Kay

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The ocean, like God, contains great treasures

• One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles of earthly streams. Robert Murray M’Cheyne
• For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls. Christopher Smart
• Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You’ve got to work hard to get to them. Muhammad Ali

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The ocean, like God, is the source of all life

• The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they’re the source of life. Peter Sarsgaard
• The ocean is our life support system. Sylvia Earle
• Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life,” murmured Niko. “They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean’s pulse, and our own heartbeat. Tamora Pierce
• With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Sylvia Earle

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Our souls long for the ocean like they long for God

• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The ocean has always been a salve to my soul. Jimmy Buffett
• The ocean is our life support system. Sylvia Earle
• The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. Robert Wyland
• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. Kate Chopin
• The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. Kate Chopin
• The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him. Oswald Chambers
• The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean. Wasif Ali Wasif

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Each living being is a wave on the ocean that is God…

• As an immortal man of realization, you will know yourself as a wave in the ocean of God, the one and only, self-sustaining, ever-existing Cosmic Consciousness.   Paramahansa Yogananda
• The whole of this universe, therefore, is, as it were, a peculiar form; the Absolute is that ocean while you and I, and suns and stars, and everything else are various waves of that ocean.  Paramahansa Yogananda
• We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath. Brad Dourif
• As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated “egos” inside bags of skin. Alan Watts
• We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. Alan Watts
• Each wave in the ocean of God’s Nothingness has its moment, but it must inevitably give way to other waves. Richard L. Rubenstein
• I am humility, nothing more and nothing less. I am one blade of grass in a sea of grass. I am one wave in an endless ocean of waves. I am one glowing star in a galaxy of stars. Frederick Lenz
• If God is the ocean, we are the waves, so that in describing our relation to God we can say, paradoxically, that we are “not one, not two.” Tom Harpur
• Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve … Robinson Jeffers
• The persona is perceived by the world to be ‘you’, whereas it is only a linear functionality. It is like the ripples or waves of the ocean. David R. Hawkins
• You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him. Sathya Sai Baba
• The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea. John Templeton
• When a wave settles down, then it instantly recognizes that its source in ocean – infinite, silent, and unchanging – was always there. Tom Von Deck
• Our minds are just waves on the ocean of consciousness. As waves they come and go. As ocean they are infinite and eternal. Know yourself as the ocean of being, the womb of all existence. These are all metaphors of course; the reality is beyond description. You can know it only by being it. Nisargadatta Maharaja

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…waves within the ocean of consciousness…

• As a creator, you rise up from the ocean of consciousness to create your personal reality. When you go deep inside, however, you see that you belong to the ocean of consciousness. It is creating reality through you without ever leaving the transcendent world. Deepak Chopra
• The advanced yogi feels his soul as a wave in the ocean of Cosmic Consciousness. But the completely liberated yogi beholds his soul-wave as a manifestation of the Cosmic Ocean. Such a yogi never says, “I am God,” for he knows God can exist without his soul; but, if he wants to, he can say: “God has become myself. Paramahansa Yogananda
• I am the ocean of consciousness. Sometimes I become the little wave of the body, but I am never just the wave without the Ocean of God. Paramahansa Yogananda
• God is the ocean, man (the individualized soul) is a wave. As man is a part of God, so is he never truly apart from Him. By the power of maya, a portion of God’s cosmic consciousness is cloaked in Nature’s garb, a body fitted with five external senses and one internal sense, mind. Paramahansa Yogananda
• In the experience of awareness with content, I am the ocean, but I am also aware of the waves. Some of them manifest as people. Hameed Ali by Han

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…waves within the vast ocean of Being

• God is the Ocean of Being, and we are the waves… however no wave is entirely distinct from the ocean which is its ground. Levite
• Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There’s a vast spaciousness. There’s a vast stillness and there’s a little ripple activity on the surface, which isn’t separate, just like the ripples are not separate from the ocean.  Eckhart Tolle
• God has been compared to a calm, still ocean, from which all created things arise like waves. Deepak Chopra

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Like us, the spiritual icons were also waves on the ocean of God…

• Christs and Buddhas are but waves on the boundless ocean which I am. Swami Vivekananda
• Krishna, Buddha, Christ, Mohammed, and Luther may be instanced as the great waves that stood up above their fellows. Swami Vivekananda

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…and all who have come before us

• This afternoon, we gather to remember those waves who have brilliantly crested before us. We find solace in our common origins and paths. We observe how the qualities and essence of our loved ones are imbued within us, or sometimes, within our children, rooted in the same sacred waters. Although our loved ones may have returned to the ultimate source of creation, we feel them in the wakes they leave behind. The wave has subsided into the ocean and yet their undertow continues to tug at us. Rabbi Richard Rubenstein
• Although the waves subside, their mark remains in the world they once inhabited. The rocks of the shore are smoothed and polished by the gentle lapping of wave after wave after wave; a brittle world, softened through acts of kindness. Our universe is shaped by the legacies they leave behind. Although our loved ones may no longer be with us, we see the world through the prism they planted within us. We utilize the gifts they left for us through personal sacrifice. We stand as a fleeting wave, gazing at a world shaped by the swells that have come and gone long before we came into existence. The love and kindness of our ancestors permeates the world around us, smoothing narrow edges and testifying to their enduring presence. Rabbi Richard Rubenstein

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As the ocean waves, the universe peoples

• This feeling of being lonely and very temporary visitors in the universe is in flat contradiction to everything known about man (and all other living organisms) in the sciences. We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated “egos” inside bags of skin. Alan Watts
• What you do is what the whole Universe is doing at the place you call here and now. You are something the whole Universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. Alan Watts
• You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here. Alan Watts
• You are something that the whole universe is doing, in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. Alan Watts

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Waves come and go while the ocean remains

• Our life is like the unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer’s cloudy days, Our riches fleet as swift as thought; Faith in the One Supreme Alone will bear us o’er the gulfs Of Being’s stormy stream. Bhartrhari
• Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back to the ocean of eternity. Some are sunlit, some run in storm and rain; one is a quiet ripple, another is a thunderous breaker; and once in many centuries comes a great tidal wave that sweeps over a continent; but all go back to the sea and lie equally level there. Austin O’Malley

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Waves cannot exist without the ocean

• The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.  Paramahansa Yogananda
• The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like. Mooji
• The wave as such can never become the ocean. Only by dissociating itself from the wave-form and participating in the nature of its true substance, namely, water, can the wave be merged in the ocean and be one with it. The finite can never become the Infinite. What appears to be finite, is really the Infinite.  Swami Yatiswarananda

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The waves seem separate from the ocean, but this is an illusion

• Thus, Spirit first gave rise to a Magic Delusion, Maya, the cosmic Magical Measurer, which produces the illusion of dividing a portion of the Indivisible Infinite into separate finite objects, even as a calm ocean becomes distorted into individual waves on its surface by the action of a storm. All creation is nothing but Spirit, seemingly and temporarily diversified by Spirit’s creative vibratory activity. Paramahansa Yogananda
• God is the ocean, man (the individualized soul) is a wave. As man is a part of God, so is he never truly apart from Him. By the power of maya, a portion of God’s cosmic consciousness is cloaked in Nature’s garb, a body fitted with five external senses and one internal sense, mind. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Actually our human consciousness is Cosmic Consciousness, bottled up in a phial of flesh, corked with ignorance, and floating isolated in the ocean of Spirit. Because of maya, the cosmic delusion, this bottled-up human consciousness, although living and moving in Spirit, cannot contact Spirit, just as salt water that is corked in a bottle and floating on the sea cannot contact the sea. Paramahansa Yogananda

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No wave is separate from the ocean

• Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana. Frederick Lenz
• Perhaps the best available metaphor for the conception of God as the Holy source is that God is the ocean and we are the waves. Each wave has its moment when it is identifiable as a somewhat separate entity. Nevertheless, no wave is entirely distinct from the ocean which is its substantial source.” I find meaning and beauty in this metaphor. God is the ocean and we the waves. Each of us constitute momentary flashes of individuality before re-entering into eternity. We emerge first as ripples on the horizon, barely distinguishable from the rolling tide. Slowly, we gain in momentum, rising from the waters, seeking our full potential. At last, we stand tall and broad, mighty and powerful. We crest. With a burst of energy and rumbling of sound, we peak and then bow and then break. Our bodies diminish over time as we ebb towards the source from whence we came. As we subside, the sea foam leaves evidence of our legacy, attesting to the strength once held but since faded. Our power exercised, our potential actualized, we slip back to the surface before fading into the waters. In our wake, ripples line up along the horizon; faithful generations eagerly awaiting their turn to follow in our steps. Rabbi Richard Rubenstein
• The wave is one with the ocean, indivisible and inseparable from the whole ocean. All that the ocean is, the wave is; and all the power, all the energy, all the strength, all the life and all the substance of the ocean are expressed in every wave. The wave has access to all that lies beneath it, for the wave really is the ocean, just as the ocean is the wave, inseparable, indivisible, one. Note here this very important point: There is no place where one wave comes to an end and the next wave begins, so the oneness of the wave with the ocean includes the oneness of every wave with every other wave. As a wave is one with the ocean, so you are one with God. Joel Goldsmith

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The waves of manifestation are not separate from the ocean of Being

• The world of mind and matter, of names and shapes, continues, but it does not matter to me at all. It is like having a shadow. It is there — following me wherever I go, but not hindering me in any way. It remains a world of experiences, but not of names and forms related to me by desires and fears. The experiences are qualityless, pure experiences, if I may say so. I call them experiences for the lack of a better word. They are like the waves on the surface of the ocean, the ever-present, but not affecting its peaceful power. Nisargadatta Maharaja
• There is much confusion over the wave-ocean metaphor. The best way to understand it is that the wave is a part of the ocean but both are one and the same water. Similarly, at the level of vyavahAra, the jIva is a part of Ishvara but, in reality both are one and the same brahman. The notion of god only has relevance at the empirical level. In reality, there is only non-dual brahman. Dennis Waite
• There really is no independent ego, just like there are no waves independent of the ocean. Leo Hartong
• All waves are rising and falling differently, in different rhythms, with different volumes. Some catch the light some do not. You can see the separations between the waves but what you also see quite clearly is that all the waves are water. That is what the knowledge of “not-two” is like. Things retain the separateness which the senses give them, which we use to negotiate this reality, but the illumined mind knows that all things are Brahman, waves of one infinite sea of light. Andrew Harvey
• What you are is not separate from everything that comes and go. What you are, as the space in which everything comes and goes, isintimate with all of those things, in the same way that the ocean is inseparable from the waves. So, ultimately there are no separate waves. The ocean is appearing as the waves. The ocean is the waves. Then you can’t even distinguish between the ocean and the waves. In present experience, the waves of the ocean appear as thoughts, sensations, images, feelings, sounds – everything in present experience is simply a wave. What you are as the ocean is the waves as well! You are not the thoughts, sensations, images, but at the same time, what you are, as the open space in which all of these appear and disappear, is totally intimate with all of this.  Jeff Foster

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All waves are one with the ocean

• If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if I tried to distinguish myself from the water that produced me. What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God? Hugh Prather
• Imagine a vast ocean. Feel that you are part of that ocean. Imagine that each wave in the ocean is slowly moving through you. Feel that each wave is a wave of joy. Frederick Lenz
• How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean. Rumi
• God is the ocean and we are the waves. In some sense each wave has its moment in which it is distinguishable as a somewhat separate entity. Nevertheless, no wave is entirely distinct from the ocean… The waves are surface manifestations of the ocean. [Even as] our knowledge of the ocean is largely dependent on the way it manifests itself in the waves. Richard Rubenstein
• God is the background of your soul. Not only so, but you are one with Him. Just like a wave in the ocean you are eternally joined with the Infinite Divine. All is thus, one ocean of existence. Swami Vivekananda
• A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form. If the wave subsides, it is the ocean, but that name-and-form has immediately vanished forever. Sister Nivedita
• You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. Alan Watts
• If God is the ocean, we are the waves, so that in describing our relation to God we can say, paradoxically, that we are “not one, not two.” Tom Harpur
• In his talk, “An Ocean of God: The Interconnectedness of All Being,” Rabbi Kushner stressed that life is permeated with meaning because of this underlying unity, which is what Jews mean when they say God is One. Using another metaphor, God is the Nothing from which all separation arose and which permeates and encompasses all creation. If God is the ocean, we are the waves, so that in describing our relation to God we can say, paradoxically, that we are “not one, not two.” David V. Gaggin
• Is there really a wave and an ocean, a fire and its flames, the water and its wetness, or, for that matter, a person and his environment? Leo Hartong
• Alan Watts, the mid-20th-century British contemporary philosopher, perhaps said it best when he stated, “You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. Ziad Masri
• All forms are of One Substance, just as the waves on the ocean are all ‘made’ of water, yet water is not ‘made’ out of waves. The wave is the localized perspective in this metaphor. As long as the water ‘waves’ there is the apparent individual expression of such waves. As long as the One Substance ‘peoples’ there is the apparent individual expression of people. Leo Hartong
• As the ocean with waves and without waves is the same ocean, so Spirit, with or without creation, is ever a unity. Prakriti is the storm of may a, delusion, relativity, that transforms the surface of the calm ocean of God into tumultuous waves of human lives. The vibratory storm of relativity is God’s desireless desire to create. Paramahansa Yogananda
• In the ocean of being There is only one. There was and there will be Only one.You are already fulfilled. How can you be bound or free? Wherever you go, Be happy. The Ashtavakra Gita
• I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of Spirit that has become the wave of human life. Paramahansa Yogananda
• An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water. Arthur Eddington
• The Multiplicity and the Unity are one and the same thing, a thing that is both many and one at the same time. The waves, and the currents underwater, make up the ocean. The ocean is the underlying basis for every wave. Neither the ocean, nor the waves, can be understood in isolation from each other. Paul Harrison
• In a way, we humans are like waves in the ocean of life. Each wave starts small and grows to some extent as it crosses the ocean, picking up shape and definition, and also picking up whatever flotsam and jetsam it may encounter. Waves learn to believe that they are real and independent, so it’s better to be big, because then you can be influential and throw your weight around, you will amount to something, you can make a real splash in life, and be looked up to by lesser waves. Sometimes waves travel unimpeded for thousands of miles, sometimes they hit a shallow reef and are momentarily tripped, but eventually they all impact and die on a beach somewhere (their reflected echoes are called ghost waves). In the course of their odysseys, these waves have learned to think of themselves as unquestionably and quite obviously separate and independent, as things in and of themselves. Some of them believe that there is some great god called the Ocean out there somewhere which it is their duty to seek and serve. They are firmly convicted in their beliefs about death. In truth, of course, no wave is ever apart from the Ocean it exists in and which is ultimately responsible for its very existence. Their anguish is the result of their having totally accepted the illusion that a wave can and should and does exist as an independent thing. Roger Stephens
• The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two. Anthony de Mello
• Although we appear as little waves, the whole sea is at our back, and we are one with it. No wave can exist of itself Swami Vivekananda
• As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer. Mahatma Gandhi
• People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one’s perception of reality. Nhat Hanh
• An organism appears in, and is inseparable from, its environment. Leo Hartong

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We are the ocean appearing as a wave for a while

• I am the ocean temporarily appearing as a ripple.  Eckhart Tolle
• The ocean wakes up to itself as the ocean when the ripple realises it is the ocean.  Eckhart Tolle
• It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean. Jon J. Muth
• The whole world seems like waves or ripples on the surface of a vast and deep ocean. You are that ocean and, of course, you are also the ripple, but a ripple that has realized its true identity as the ocean, and compared to that vastness and depth, the world of waves and ripples is not all that important. Eckhart Tolle
• God is in you as the ocean is in the wave. Eric Butterworth
• Look at the waves in the sea. Not one wave is really different from the sea, but what makes the wave apparently different? Name and form; the form (body or shape) of the wave and the name (classification into plants, animals, mankind etc.) which we give to it. This is what makes it different from the sea. When name and form go, it is the same sea. So this whole universe is that one Unit Existence; name and form have created all these various differences. The universe is you yourself, the unbroken you; you are throughout the universe. “In all hands you work, through all mouths you eat, through all nostrils you breathe, through all minds you think.” You are God, you are the angels, you are man, you are animals, you are the plants, you are the minerals, you are everything. Whatever exists is you. You are the Infinite.  Swami Vivekananda
• When an ocean wave rises up, it says to itself, “I am a separate individual,” but when it falls back, it says, “I am the ocean.” Vedic saying
• It is truer to say the wave is an expression of the ocean than that the ocean is an expression of the wave. You are the ocean expressing itself as a wave. Leo Hartong
• You’re not a wave, you’re a part of the ocean. Mitch Albom
• The wave can recognize its true nature as nothing but ocean, even when it displays the properties of an apparent separate wave. Leo Hartong
• Every wave that appears contains the ocean. That which we are pointing to is within every experience; whether you are in the office or sitting on the meditation cushion, walking in a supermarket or attending a non-duality lecture. Whether there is extreme pain, or intense sadness, that is still the ocean. It is the ocean appearing as pain, the ocean appearing as sadness. Oneness is not limited to a particular experience. It expresses itself as all experience. So, the invitation is to come back to present experience, and rediscover the ocean, and that invitation is always there, in every experience, in this experience. This present experience is the ocean that you have always been seeking without realising it. What is actually happening right now? What is appearing in this present experience? I don’t mean the story of what’s happening to you, I don’t mean what do you think is happening; I’m saying look at what is actually happening now. Come back to the present thoughts, sensations and feelings and rediscover who you really are in the midst of these waves of experience. What you truly are must be there within every experience, otherwise it can’t be who you really are. If it’s something that comes and goes, it can’t be who you really are. Who you really are, as the ocean, does not come and go.  Jeff Foster
• My favorite metaphor for life is that of the ocean. We are all connected to the ocean, our source. God is the ocean. I often forget that I am the ocean too. At times I get caught up as the waves of the ocean with my own agenda, trying to take charge of a life that is in part predestined by the creator. Joe Scarola
• Though difference be none, I am of Thee, Not Thou, O Lord, of me; For of the sea is verily the Wave, Not of the Wave the Sea. Shankara

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The ocean realises itself as the ocean through the wave

• Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have never been just a wave. Nothing changes except the falling away of a false belief. Enza Vita

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As waves, we are what we seek

• We are like waves on the ocean, looking for the ocean, longing to be part of it? Yes. That’s a great metaphor. You are like a wave in the ocean experiencing itself as separate from the ocean. The wave asks, ‘When and where will I find the ocean? Who can give the ocean to me?’ But the wave was always the ocean, from the very beginning, even in its seeking! It’s the ocean looking for itself. Even within the ocean’s failure to find itself it is still the ocean; every wave is one hundred per cent water. As all the authentic spiritual teachers have been telling us for hundreds and thousands of years, you are what you seek. Jeff Foster

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As waves, each of us is part of something vastly greater

• Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. Albert Schweitzer

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As waves, we are all connected in the deep…

• Just like a sunbeam can’t separate itself from the sun, and a wave can’t separate itself from the ocean, we can’t separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind. Marianne Williamson
• Loving another person is not separate from loving God. One is a single wave, the other is the ocean. Deepak Chopra
• Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. Frederick Buechner
• I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. William James
• We are like waves in the ocean, each with a unique character and quality on the surface, but deep down we are eternally connected to one another and to the ocean as a whole. If you practice looking beyond the surface of appearances, you will begin to see the true Being that lies within each form. You will see your Consciousness looking through the eyes of another, and it is when you see yourself in another that you cannot help but develop compassion for them; because in Truth, there is no “them,” there is only YOU, experiencing yourself from an inconceivable amount of perspectives. Joseph P. Kauffman
• As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated “egos” inside bags of skin. Alan Watts
• Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. Mehmet Oz
• The universe is made up of an endless ocean of life itself. It is an endless ocean of itself. And for a time it binds itself together in particularized forms. Those forms have perception and they perceive themselves as being separate. Frederick Lenz

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…connected to an ocean of humanity

• Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God. Mahatma Gandhi
• Beyond the deception of perception, we are like waves in the ocean of humanity, all connected as One basic energy. Ziad Masri
• Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. Mehmet Oz
• There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean. Rajneesh
• We can only gain access to the Kingdom of God by realizing it dwells within us as well as in all humanity. Know that we are all cells in the ocean of infinity, each contributing to the others’ welfare. Peace Pilgrim
• We all drink from one water. We all breathe from one air. We rise from one ocean. And we live under one sky. Anwar Fazal
• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi

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As waves, our lives flow into each other

• Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love. Frederick Buechner

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Our souls and the ocean of God are made from same substance

• Just as a wave on the surface of the ocean is composed of the same water as the ocean, and can never be separated from it, so too are our souls made from the same substance as God and we are eternally joined with Him. Pulkit Mathur
• The small waves and the big waves all arise from the same ocean. So, when we stand aside spiritually and view every person and every religion impersonally, we shall see that everything is made of God. Paramahansa Yogananda
• The wave and the ocean are nothing but ‘One Water.’ Leo Hartong
• A wave takes on a distinctive shape for a while, but it is made only of water, is a temporary manifestation of the water, and eventually dissolves back into its source, the ocean. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Ultimate reality and maya are like an infinite ocean and its countless waves. Both the ocean and the waves are composed of the same stuff, but when one’s attention is fixed on the waves, one fails to see the ocean.  Swami Adiswarananda
• Spirit, being the only existing Substance, had naught but Itself with which to create. Spirit and Its universal creation could not be essentially different, for two ever-existing Infinite Forces would consequently each be absolute, which is by definition an impossibility. An orderly creation requires the duality of Creator and created. Thus, Spirit first gave rise to a Magic Delusion, Maya, the cosmic Magical Measurer, which produces the illusion of dividing a portion of the Indivisible Infinite into separate finite objects, even as a calm ocean becomes distorted into individual waves on its surface by the action of a storm. Paramahansa Yogananda

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In reality, nothing exists other than the ocean

• By His own nature, the Self is whatever He sees. There is nothing else here but the Self. Whether appearing as the seen or perceiving as the seer, nothing else exists besides the Self.  Just as water plays with itself by assuming the forms of waves, the Self, the ultimate The Supreme Self Reality, plays happily with Himself. Though there are multitudes of visible objects, and wave upon wave of images, still, they are not different from their witness.  Jnaneshvar

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The movement of each wave is dictated by the entire ocean

• God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port. Charles Spurgeon
• Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave ’til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know. Rumi
• According to Buddhism, man is a series of waves. Every wave dies, but somehow the first wave causes the second. That the second wave is identical with the first is illusion. Swami Vivekananda
• The ocean’s current can more easily be controlled than individual waves. Scott Owen
• Waves do not move of their own volition. The entire ocean makes them move. Anthony Lambert
• You can’t push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in. Susan Strasberg
• What are we but floating waveless in the eternal current of events, irresistibly moved forward and onward and incapable of rest? But you and I are only little things, bubbles. There are always some giant waves in the ocean of affairs. Swami Vivekananda
• There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide. Rachel Carson

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Suffering is to resist this movement…

• Suffering is a great teacher. Maybe it’s the best teacher but we often don’t see that, because we don’t realise what suffering really is. Normally, we do all sorts of things to avoid, deny and numb our suffering. We take medication, drink alcohol or try to distract ourselves. Suffering is always an opportunity; it’s an invitation to discover the completeness in what you are running away from. Which aspects of your experience right now are not okay? Which waves (thoughts, sensations, and feelings) of the ocean are being rejected right now? Which waves are not being seen as part of the ocean? Basically, what are you at war with? This is always the question that suffering leads you to. Jeff Foster

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…and to forget who we really are…

• Suffering is forgetting who you really are. We suffer when we don’t see this completeness – this intimacy – within the present experience. When we don’t see that every wave that’s presently appearing is part of the ocean and therefore allowed in the ocean, we start trying to escape this moment to attempt to reach the next moment. We experience ourselves as not whole or somehow broken so we attempt to move away from this moment. In truth, that movement is not actually possible but we try anyway because that’s how we are programmed. We try to move away from this moment to get to the next moment, to tomorrow or next year or to ten years time. We start to use time to achieve this. This is the origin of suffering. We try to escape what’s happening now. We try to run away from aspects of our present experience. We try to escape these thoughts, sensations and feelings and get to a future place where things will be better. That’s the movement of suffering.  Jeff Foster

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…to think we are separate from the ocean that is God

• People tend to think of themselves as unquestionably and quite obviously separate and independent, as things in and of themselves. Some of them believe that there is some great god called the Ocean out there somewhere which it is their duty to seek and serve. They are firmly convicted in their beliefs about death. In truth, of course, no wave is ever apart from the Ocean it exists in and which is ultimately responsible for its very existence. Their anguish is the result of their having totally accepted the illusion that a wave can and should and does exist as an independent thing. Roger Stephens

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All we need do is to surrender and allow the ocean to take care of us

• Give up to grace.  The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.  Rumi
• The word “surrender” is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have. David Deida

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All experiencing is God bringing forth waves of manifestation…

• Just as the waves that play on the surface of the ocean and the currents that flow within it are only the formless water moving within itself, so all thinking, imagining, feeling, sensing and perceiving are only awareness vibrating.  Rupert Spira
• A wave is a movement of water in the same way that thought, sensation and perception is a vibration of consciousness.  Rupert Spira
• Spirit alone is perfect. Everything in creation, being delimited, is imperfect. The very beginning of creation gave rise to the law of duality—light and darkness, good and evil— the law of relativity necessary to divide the One into the many. By the storm of vibration, God’s thoughts of multiplicity brought forth the waves of manifestation: His lila, or divine play.  Paramahansa Yogananda
• All creation is nothing but Spirit, seemingly and temporarily diversified by Spirit’s creative vibratory activity.  Paramahansa Yogananda
• What is actually happening right now? What is appearing in this present experience? I don’t mean the story of what’s happening to you, I don’t mean what do you think is happening; I’m saying look at what is actually happening now. Come back to the present thoughts, sensations and feelings and rediscover who you really are in the midst of these waves of experience. What you truly are must be there within every experience, otherwise it can’t be who you really are. If it’s something that comes and goes, it can’t be who you really are. Who you really are, as the ocean, does not come and go. Jeff Foster
• All the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like the crest and trough of a single wave, a single vibration. For a wave, although itself a single event, only expresses itself through the opposites of crest and trough, high point and low point. For that very reason, the reality is not found in the crest nor the trough alone, but in their unity. Ken Wilber
• Our individual experiences in the physical world are patterns of self-excitation of cosmic consciousness. It is the variety and dynamics of excitations across the underlying ‘medium’ that lead to different experiential qualities. Bernardo Kastrup
• Pure consciousness can and does express itself individually, just like a current in the ocean. A. H. Almaas
• The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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…fluctuations arising within an ocean of consciousness…

• All speech, action and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• An object is the shape that Consciousness assumes, in the same way that a wave is the shape that water assumes. Rupert Spira
• Awareness and all that appears in awareness are absolutely intimate! The ocean cannot reject the waves, why would it? Awareness, wholeness, oneness, or we could call it consciousness, takes form as everything that appears. Consciousness is not some blank empty slate behind everything. That’s how the mind interprets it. The mind interprets these words as things. Consciousness is not a thing – it is everything that appears. Jeff Foster
• Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions. Oskar Kokoschka

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…waves that we get to surf

• Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing. Alex Grey
• You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Thought is a wave arising in an ocean of awareness

• Just as waves come and go in the ocean, thought waves come and go in the ocean of awareness. Just as waves, be they tsunamis or ripples, do not affect the ocean in any way except as temporary variations on its surface.  Paramahansa Yogananda
• If awareness were likened to an ocean, thoughts would be the waves that play on the surface and feelings the currents that flow within it. Just as all there is to the waves and currents is the movement or activity of the ocean, so all there is to the mind is the motion or activity of awareness. Rupert Spira
• Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves and ripples on the surface of ocean. Every wave and ripple has a very short lived life – it is very fleeting. Eckhart Tolle
• Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the mind’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. Sogyal Rinpoche
• Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves and ripples on the surface of the ocean. Eckhart Tolle
• When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• In other words, thinking-imagining-sensing-perceiving appears in being-knowing-loving like a current appears in the ocean, a modulation, as it were, of its own substance. Rupert Spira
• In turn, these thoughts and ideas are not unlike the ripples, eddies, and whirlpools that form in a flowing stream, and like the whirlpools in a stream some can recur and persist in a more or less stable way, while others are evanescent and vanish almost as quickly as they appear. Michael Talbot

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Emotions too are waves arising

• I also like to think of physical symptoms and stressful thoughts or emotions as waves on the ocean of life. They rise and they fall. Instead of going rigid in the face of them, I try to calmly and steadily ride the ups and downs. Toni Bernhard, J.D.
• Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean. Ram Dass
• In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being. Eckhart Tolle

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Do not resist these waves…

• It’s the same with all the thoughts and feelings and other experiences that arise in the ocean of ourselves. The ocean never resists them, it never creates a negative reference point saying “Damn , that seaweed is still there. There must be something terribly wrong with me”. When they arise, the ocean just sees them for what they are and they pass away naturally. Suzanne Segal

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…for it is the nature of waves to come and go

• God is like the ocean, consciously sending forth waves to ‘wipe away’ the current state of affairs, leaving the world fresh and fertile for new ideas to manifest. Like a ‘benevolent’ tsunami, this wave washes away outdated, anachronistic practices and rituals, and even fundamental belief systems which need to be updated for the current climes. As an aside, the Eastern belief, following this logic, is that every now and then, whenever need be, a new ‘wave’ is needed to rejuvenate and update the status quo, which is partly what Vivekananda meant when he said: “Christ and Buddha are waves on the ocean which I am” Swami Vivekananda

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Dive beneath the waves to find peace and wisdom

• Do not try to correct the mind. Trying to correct the mind is like trying to correct the waves in the ocean. Can you stop the waves in the ocean? If you want to see an ocean without waves you only have to dive deeper. When you dive deep inside you will experience the stillness of the ocean. And if it is all frozen that is enlightenment. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• The fact that one can lose one’s sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one’s consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe. Sam Harris
• You don’t dive for specific solutions; you dive to enliven that ocean of consciousness. Then your intuition grows and you have a way of solving those problems-knowing when it’s not quite right and knowing a way to make it feel correct for you. That capacity grows and things go much more smoothly. David Lynch
• With each experience of the unbounded ocean of consciousness, you infuse it into your life and therefore expand whatever consciousness you had to begin with. David Lynch
• We are ripples of consciousness of the vast ocean of consciousness. If we get agitated and become part of the reactionary and vitriolic behavior sometimes around us, we will only add to the disturbance. Deepak Chopra

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Rest in the ocean of Now

• Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the exquisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you. Denise Linn
• Even when tossing on a wave in a storm, you are still on the bosom of the ocean. Always hold on to the consciousness of God’s underlying presence. Paramahansa Yogananda

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Know yourself not to be just a wave but the ocean of consciousness itself…

• Eternal life is mine. I am the ocean of consciousness. Sometimes I become the little wave of the body, but I am never just the wave without the Ocean of God. Paramahansa Yogananda
• I am a conscious wave, rising and falling from the unconscious depths each day when I wake and sleep. While I’m awake, I believe that I’m choosing my direction as I make my journey of life before I crash upon the shoreline of death. But actually everything I do is no more than an impersonal eddy in the great sea of being. Tim Freke
• Strictly speaking, “you” cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness – or a little wave if you’re a VIP – and the ripple doesn’t become enlightened until it realizes that its ripple-identity is ultimately a misperception, that it is the ocean taking on a fleeting ripple-form. Eckhart Tolle
• Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that – infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness, infinite energy, infinite dynamic peace. David Lynch
• I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of Spirit that has become the wave of human life. Paramahansa Yogananda
• We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our unchanging centre, which is pure consciousness. When we return to our true nature, our thoughts and perceptions no longer appear as modifications of a single substance, they come into being and subside like waves of the ocean. Jean Klein
• Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity. Frederick Lenz
• We icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension. William Gerhardie are like
• When I say ‘I am’, I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus, I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is known. I have nothing to desire for I am complete forever. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• The silent, subtle consciousness which pervades the entire cosmos is like the ocean: quiet, still, yet powerful, and the source of each and every wave that manifests from it, whether a powerful tsunami, or a tiny ineffectual wave. In fact, his point is that the wave does not truly exist – every wave is simply the ocean just pushing ‘parts’ of itself out into another form, and the moment the wave recedes, its very existence is annihilated. The Sanskrit word for creation is more accurately translated as ‘extended manifestation of’, connoting that there is no disjunct between the ‘creator’ and the ‘created’, as is the case the waves and the ocean. Once we realise that we are like waves, we realise that our identity as Mr So and So, etc. is a false, temporary one, whereas in reality we part of something bigger. This ties in to non-dualistic idealism, which advocates the notion of an underlying one-ness at the level of the Kantian noumenon. Swami Vivekananda

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…one with all…

• The ground of being is like an ocean of unconscious awareness, arising as individual waves of consciousness. The conscious waves seem separate, but the oceanic depths are one. In the normal waking state, I’m conscious of being the wave; but in the deep awake state, I’m also conscious of being the unfathomable ocean. Tim Freke
• There is a sea of consciousness that is universal, even though we each perceive it from our own shores, an awareness and a world that we all share, that can be experienced by every living being, yet is seldom seen by any. Alberto Villoldo
• Vivekananda’s point is that ultimately all beings are one and the same as the ocean of Consciousness which supports the waves, and just as he identifies himself with the ocean, not the wave (regardless of the metaphorical size of such), he encourages all his followers to do the same, imbuing them with the idea that they are essentially one with God – just as he is. Suren Naicker

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…and know this ocean to be God

• My name or yours doesn’t matter, we all are mere drops in the ocean of divine consciousness, an extension of Supreme Power’. Vishal Chipkar
• In India, one of the metaphors for God is . . . The Ocean of Consciousness.” This metaphor is meant to convey that God is limitless. But the ego instead chooses to objectify itself, choosing a body floating in the ocean, rather than the ocean itself. And this limits us to becoming very powerless creatures who imagine themselves as individuals moving through time and space, rather than the infinite, eternal consciousness that we are. Shunyamurti
• Know, O Man, thou art the Sea (of consciousness)! You are Gods. If ever I feel that I am blaspheming, it is when I call you man. Swami Vivekananda
• With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, “I am the ocean.” You should realize that just behind your consciousness is the Ocean of God. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Now just as a wave is made from the same water as the ocean, so too are our souls made from the same substance (consciousness) as God. Each soul is a portion of God confined within an individual body. Therefore we have not to wander here and there, searching for God outside; because He is already present inside each and every one of us. Not only this, but if we reason it out a little further we will realize that each soul is not just a portion of God, but in actuality the whole of Him. Just as the ocean is one continuous mass of water, so too is God one unbroken mass of consciousness. There is no boundary that can separate our soul from the rest of God because it is the same substance (consciousness) that is present everywhere. All is One Existence.  This is why the Upanishads declare, “Tat twam asi” – That immanent one God is the same that is in the human soul, and not only that but you are Him. “Soham” – “I am He, I am God.”  Pulkit Mathur
• The Vedantic truth witnessed by thousands of Rishis (sages) in the highest states of meditative Samadhi, – that God is not a person, but an infinite ocean of pure consciousness. From this ocean, arise each of our individual souls, which can be imagined as waves on the surface. Pulkit Mathur

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This realisation you can attain through meditation

• Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the Vast itself. We have seen the Truth. We have felt the Truth. But the most important thing is to grow into the Truth and become totally one with the Truth. If we are concentrating on God, we may feel God right in front of us or besides us. When we are meditating, we are bound to feel Infinity, Eternity, Immortality within us. But when we are contemplating, we will see that we ourselves are Infinity, Eternity, Immortality. Sri Chinmoy

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We are waves of energy…

• 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. Alan Watts
• Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don’t underestimate your power. Deepak Chopra
• Beyond the deception of perception, we are like waves in the ocean of humanity, all connected as One basic energy. Ziad Masri
• We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy. Deepak Chopra
• Waves are not lumps of water moving along the sea but rather pure energy moving through and exciting the water. Deepak Chopra

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…waves of energy within the ocean of energy that is God

• All matter is energy. Not that matter has energy. But that it is energy. And if it’s all energy, then it can’t be separate. Energy doesn’t have a cutoff point where it ends and another separate energy begins. Just like the waves of the ocean, it’s all connected. It’s all One.  Ziad Masri
• The quantum field is the source of all things in material reality. It’s all One thing—an ocean of energy that collapses into seemingly separate forms that we call stars and planets and animals and trees and human beings, giving them the temporary illusion of solidity and separation from their purely energetic source. Ziad Masri
• The space between planetary bodies isn’t empty, but filled with a sea of energy; the potential energy in one square inch can be said to be as great as that of the whole mass of the physical universe. David R. Hawkins
• If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity, changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem. Julia Cameron
• It’s all One thing—an ocean of energy that collapses into seemingly separate forms that we call stars and planets and animals and trees and human beings, giving them the temporary illusion of solidity and separation from their purely energetic source. Ziad Masri
• We are pockets of energy within the ocean of energy that is God. Anthony Lambert
• Beyond the deception of perception, we are like waves in the ocean of humanity, all connected as One basic energy. Ziad Masri

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The great ocean has waves and ripples on its surface but is serene in its depths

• The depth of the ocean is calm, but on the surface, there are always waves. If you dive deep in your life, your life can be bliss. Agapi Stassinopoulos
• It’s like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I’m in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface. Mehmet Oz
• Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy. Daisaku Ikeda
• Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm. Gautama Buddha
• I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed. Anne Spollen
• Waves rise in the water. Before the waves rise, the water is calm.  When the waves rise, the water remains unchanged, and when the waves subside water remains. In the same way, peace is always present, but we ourselves create the causes for disturbance, agitation, distraction and restlessness – and then say that we have lost that peace. Swami Tejomayananda

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So too it is with the mind

• Through repeated practice of these methods we can get to the point where some disturbance may occur but the negative effects on our mind remain on the surface, like the waves that may ripple on the surface of an ocean but don’t have much effect deep down. Dalai Lama
• The mind is like the Pacific Ocean. It waves, depending on the atmospheric conditions. But even when it’s at its most tumultuous, if you learn to drop down twenty or thirty feet under the water there is just gentle calmness and stillness.  And it’s always present. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Waters from many rivers continually flow into the ocean but the ocean never overfills. In a like manner, desires and attachments constantly flow into the mind of the Illuminated One, but he or she , like the ocean in its deepest depths, is totally still and never disturbed. Bhagavad Gita
• Searching with my mind is like swimming on the surface – swim the whole ocean and I will find nothing. I sink to the place of stillness within. From here the inner presence nourishes me with living waters. From here my prayers carry much power. From here the voice speaks to me sweetly. Helps me in my day-to- day affairs. Tells me truths long forgotten by my race. John Kehoe
• In that Great Ocean of Universal or Cosmic Mind, bodies of Substance are but as floating specks of dust— or even bubbles formed of the substance of that Ocean itself— on the surface of that Ocean, there may arise waves, currents, ripples, eddies, whirlpools,— storms, hurricanes, tempests,— from its bosom may rise vapor, that after stages of clouds, rain-drops, flowing in streams, rivers, bays, at last again reach the source of its origin. These disturbances and changes we call Energy, Force, Motion— but they are but surface manifestations, and the Great Ocean is serene in its depths, and, in reality, is unchanged and undisturbed. William Walker Atkinson
• Universal Mind is like a great ocean, its surface ruffled by waves and surges but its depths remaining forever unmoved. The Lankavatara Sutra, Buddhism
• In the depths of the Ocean of Mind there is quiet and calm and peace— the embodiment of latent power and potential energy. On its surface are ripples, waves, great movements of energy, currents, whirlpools, eddies— phases of fierce tempest alternating with phases of calm and quiet. And from the depths of that Ocean of Mind, all mental and physical power emerges— and to its bosom all must return. And in that Ocean of Mind there is an infinite store of energy, from which may be drawn that which the human centres of consciousness and power require, when they learn the secret. William Walker Atkinson

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Sink into the depths of the ocean of God’s infinite Being and find peace

• I would rather sink to the bottom of the sea for endless eons than seek liberation through all the saints of the universe. Shih- t’ou
• From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. Jacques Yves Cousteau
• A wave cannot find peace and fulfilment in another wave. The only way for it to find lasting peace and fulfilment is to sink into the depths of itself, thereby progressively losing its agitation.  Likewise, the only place in which an apparently separate self or finite mind can find lasting peace and fulfilment is in the depths of its own being. Rupert Spira
• All the mind has to do to find the peace for which it longs is to sink into the heart of awareness. Rupert Spira
• The separate self or finite mind that longs for peace and fulfilment in objective experience is like a current in the ocean in search of water.  It is only when the apparently separate self or finite mind dives deep within itself that it finds the rest, the peace and the fulfilment for which it longs.  Rupert Spira
• Flow down and down in ever-widening rings of being. Rumi
• As the mind sinks progressively into its essence it quietens and expands – that is, it is divested of all that is finite, conditioned or limited within it – and stands revealed to itself as its essential, irreducible essence: clear, luminous, silent awareness.  Rupert Spira
• Likewise, the only place in which an apparently separate self or finite mind can find lasting peace and fulfilment is in the depths of its own being. The separate self or finite mind that longs for peace and fulfilment in objective experience is like a current in the ocean in search of water. Rupert Spira
• It is only when the apparently separate self or finite mind dives deep within itself that it finds the rest, the peace and the fulfilment for which it longs. Rupert Spira
• It’s the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• The mind is like the Pacific Ocean. It waves, depending on the atmospheric conditions. But even when it’s at its most tumultuous, if you learn to drop down twenty or thirty feet under the water there is just gentle calmness and stillness.  And it’s always present. Jon Kabat-Zinn

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We are bubbles on the surface of God

• In Him in whom this universe is interwoven; Whatever moves or is motionless, In Brahman everything is lost; Like bubbles in the ocean. In whim in whom the living creatures of the universe Emptying themselves become invisible. They disappear and come to light again. As bubbles rise to the surface. Upanishads
• Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity…Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• A myriad bubbles were floating on the surface of a stream. “What are you?” I cried to them as they drifted by. “I am a bubble, of course” nearly a myriad bubbles answered, and there was surprise and indignation in their voices as they passed. But, here and there, a lonely bubble answered, “We are this stream,” and there was neither surprise nor indignation in their voices, but just a quiet certitude. Wei Wu Wei
• The ocean of Spirit has become the little bubble of my soul. Whether floating in birth, or disappearing in death, in the ocean of cosmic awareness, the bubble of my life cannot die. I am indestructible consciousness, protected in the bosom of Spirit’s immortality. Paramahansa Yogananda

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Our lives are whirlpools…

• Experiencing is but shallow whirlpools on the surface of Being which is infinitely deep. Anthony Lambert
• We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves; whirlpools of water in an ever-flowing river. Norbert Wiener, physicist
• A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool. Alan Watts
• Living beings are self-localization of consciousness, like a whirlpool is a self-localization of water. In exactly the same way that a whirlpool causes disruptions of the water flow surrounding it, mental self-localization also causes excitations of consciousness in their surroundings. Because of this, living beings can also be perceived as objects. Bernardo Kastrup
• Each form represents, as it were, one whirlpool in the infinite ocean of matter, of which not one is constant. Just as in a rushing stream there may be millions of whirlpools, the water in each of which is different every moment, turning round and round for a few seconds, and then passing out, replaced by a fresh quantity, so the whole universe is one constantly changing mass of matter, in which all forms of existence are so many whirlpools Swami Vivekananda
• A current rushing down of its own nature falls into a hollow and makes a whirlpool, and, after running a little in that whirlpool, it emerges again in the form of the free current to go on unchecked. Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool. Swami Vivekananda

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…whirlpools in consciousness

•  Each person is a whirlpool in consciousness.  Each being is a precipitation in infinite consciousness. The stuff that each precipitation is made of is the same. Each precipitation is a localisation of one infinite field. This single field precipitates as the finite mind in order to experience form.   Rupert Spira
• Each person is a whirlpool in consciousness. The stuff that each whirlpool is made of is the same. Each whirlpool is a localisation of one infinite field. This single field localises as the finite mind in order to experience form.  Rupert Spira

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All whirlpools are ultimately one with the ocean

• Bohm cautions that this does not mean the universe is a giant undifferentiated mass. Things can be part of an undivided whole and still possess their own unique qualities. To illustrate what he means he points to the little eddies and whirlpools that often form in a river. At a glance such eddies appear to be separate things and possess many individual characteristics such as size, rate, and direction of rotation, et cetera. But careful scrutiny reveals that it is impossible to determine where any given whirlpool ends and the river begins. Thus, Bohm is not suggesting that the differences between “things” is meaningless. He merely wants us to be aware constantly that dividing various aspects of the holomovement into “things” is always an abstraction. Michael Talbot

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When a whirlpool ceases, the water sinks back into the depths of God’s infinite Being

• The body-mind is like a whirlpool on the surface of consciousness. When the whirlpool ceases, consciousness remains. Rupert Spira
• Experiencing (knowing) is an activity at the surface of Infinite Being. Experience fields, each a separate field of knowing, can be compared to a trillion whirlpools arising and dissolving on the surface of Infinite Being.  Pure Potentiality is a quality of Infinite Being, as depth is a quality of the ocean.  Pure Potentiality feeds the whirlpools with the water that manifests them and the power that sustains them.  When a whirlpool dies, the water that formed it sinks back into the still depths of Infinite Being.  Anthony Lambert

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Sink beneath the eddies and whirlpools to experience stillness

• If the argument feels like it’s getting opaque, I can offer an analogy that helped me when I first heard it. Imagine that your mind is like a river. On the surface a river is filled with activity in eddies and waves. As you go deeper, the waves subside into a steady current. Deeper still the current slows down, and at the very bottom of the river, there is no current at all as water settles into the underlying river bed. Just as we can trace a river from its most agitated state to a level of complete stillness, the mind can follow itself from the stream of consciousness to deeper levels until it encounters its source in silent awareness. The entire journey is accomplished within awareness; the beginning, middle, and end are all conscious. The practical result of this dive into awareness is not abstract knowledge. Reality is different in different states of consciousness—another maxim from the ancient rishis. Therefore, God isn’t merely process but transformation. Deepak Chopra

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Each of us is a drop in God’s ocean

• We are like a drop of water in a vast, divine ocean, distinct yet immersed in something much larger than ourselves. Alberto Villoldo
• We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean. Mahatma Gandhi
• If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is? Mahatma Gandhi
• The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean. Mahatma Gandhi
• Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean. Mahatma Gandhi
• God is goodness itself, in whom all goodness is involved. If therefore we love other things for the goodness which we see in them, why do we not love God, in whom is all goodness? All other things are but sparks of that fire, and drops of that sea. If you see any good in the creature, remember there is much more in the Creator. Leave therefore the streams, and go to the fountainhead of comfort. Richard Sibbes
• God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Better than fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of any, or all earthly friends. These are but shadows; but the enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams; but God is the sun. These are but streams; but God is the fountain. These are but drops, but God is the ocean. Jonathan Edwards
• A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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From the drop, we can infer the ocean

• From a drop of water, a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. Arthur Conan Doyle

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What is the ocean but a multitude of drops?

• How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops? David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
• Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. Ryunosuke Satoro
• We are like droplets of water in an ocean of consciousness; individual to an extent, but those droplets together make up the ocean — without the droplets there is no ocean. It is the same with this infinite energy mind we call creation/god. We are not part of that infinity — we are that infinity if we open ourselves up to reconnect with it. Wherever you stand in infinity, you are at the center of infinity. So everything that exists is everything that exists. I am everything that exists; and so are you — the more you realize that, the more you open up to the full infinity of who you are. David Icke
• We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed. Mother Teresa
• Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land. So the little minutes, humble though they be, Make the mighty ages of eternity. Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney
• The ocean is made of drops. Mother Teresa
• Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things! Mehmet Murat Ildan
• One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. Hannah More
• How could the drops of water know themselves as a river? Yet the river flows on.  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth. Martin Farquhar Tupper
• Every drop in the ocean counts. Yoko Ono
• Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. Ryunosuke Satoro
• Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean. Percy Ross
• A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. Swami Sivananda

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As drops, we are one with the ocean

• If you think you are something, then alas, you are nothing. [Don’t try this at home!] On the other hand, if, because of your fusion with God… you think of yourself as nothing, then you are very great indeed… [You are] like a single drop of water fallen into the sea. It has returned to its source. It is one with the ocean. Now it’s no longer identifiable as an independent thing in any way whatsoever. Lawrence Kushner
• It helps to think of a self as being like a drop of water that goes into the ocean and becomes one with the ocean. Each drop still exists but is now part of a much larger entity; yet it still does its small part as an element of the ocean. As significant as a single drop may appear, if it were not for all the drops, there would be no ocean. David V. Gaggin
• It’s silly talking about the unimportance of the little drops. The little drops and the ocean are the same thing. John Fowles
• Become as waves of one ocean… the drops of one sea. Abdul ‘l Baha

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Each drop contains the ocean…

• Each drop no matter how small contains the infinite whole. Anthony Lambert
• I am the drop that contains the ocean. Yunus Emre
• In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence. Kahlil Gibran
• Let us realise that we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we are all mind. Every drop has the whole of the ocean in it. That is the mind of man. Swami Vivekananda
• Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans. Mahmud Shabistari
• The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We aren’t a drop in the ocean, but are the ocean, in drops. Anne Lamott
• The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Outside is the joy of the drop. Inside is the joy of the ocean. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you. Muhammad Iqbal
• You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop. Deepak Chopra
• You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. Rumi
• You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive? Rumi
• You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop. Rumi
• The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. Dogen
• When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• You are not a tiny, insignificant drop in a vast ocean. Your goal is to learn to see the ocean within the drop. Those who see themselves as perpetually “small” are sending vibrational energies that are also “small”. You are a part of an energy source that is so vast, so immeasurable that the mind cannot comprehend it. This lies at the core of you – and every being. Christin Sander
• All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. Kabir
• The sea lives in every one of us. Wyland
• Each being contains in itself the whole intelligible world. Therefore All is everywhere. Each is there All, and All is each. Man as he now is has ceased to be the All. But when he ceases to be an individual, he raises himself again and penetrates the whole world. Plotinus

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…for a drop contains the same qualities as the ocean…

• We have the same qualities as God, just like a drop of the ocean has the same qualities as the whole ocean. Everybody’s looking for something and we are it. We don’t have to look anywhere–it’s right there within ourselves. George Harrison
• Every drop of water in an ocean contains the flavor of the whole ocean. So too, every moment in time contains the flavor of eternity, if you could live in that moment, but most people do not live in the moment which is the only time they really have. Deepak Chopra
• As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite. James Allen
• Just as the taste of salt pervades the great ocean and every single drop of sea-water carries the same flavour, so every experience gives me the touch of reality, the ever fresh realisation of my own being. Nisargadatta Maharaja

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…yet not in the same degree

• All human love is a faint type of God’s; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God’s is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space. Cormac McCarthy
• It is not just that we exist and God has always existed, it is also that God necessarily exists in an infinitely better, stronger, more excellent way. The difference between God’s being and ours is more than the difference between the sun and a candle, more than the difference between the ocean and a raindrop… God’s being is qualitatively different. Wayne Grudem
• A drop of ocean water may be united and one with the entire ocean, but as mentioned, it differs from the ocean in terms of power, locale, and importance. Just so, an individual mind may be nonlocally united with the One Mind, but differ from it, particularly in terms of power. Larry Dossey
• A drop of water in the ocean is one with the entire ocean in terms of chemical composition but not in terms of volume and power. Just so, a human may be identical to the Absolute in some ways but not in others. Larry Dossey
• A drop of water partakes of the nature of the ocean, but it is nothing compared to the ocean. If God may be likened to the ocean, we are infinitely less than ocean drops. Gandhi

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The soul is like the ocean

• My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice. Ursula K. Le Guin
• A spiritual person is vast, like an ocean – but very mighty, very powerful. Harbhajan Singh Yogi
• Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither. William Wordsworth
• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo
• Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of the stars-and forget to wonder at themselves. Saint Augustine
• There is no reality but God, says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings. Rumi
• Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening. Khalil Gibran
• I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides. Dejan Stojanovic
• The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun. Don Miguel Ruiz
• You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this. Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
• First find out that you are not the slave of nature, never were and never will be; that this nature, infinite as you may think it, is only finite, a drop in the ocean, and your Soul is the ocean; you are beyond the stars, the sun, and the. They are like mere bubbles compared with your infinite being. Swami Vivekananda
• The quantity of water contained in ocean waves remains the same whether the waves play on the sea breast or lie hidden beneath it. Similarly, the soul-waves of life remain constant whether they play on the surface of the sea of life or rest deep within its bosom. Paramahansa Yogananda

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Each of us contains an ocean within us

• Man … has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean’s roar. Horace Mann
• How remarkable! In Me, the limitless ocean, the waves of individual selves arise according to their inherent nature, meet and play with one another for a while and then disappear. The Ashtavakra Gita
• There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. David Lynch
• Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the sand under the scorching sun? Look! The water is just one millimeter away! Jump in! Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
• The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross. Rumi
• Let us swim together in the ocean of our being. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land’s edge also. S. Eliot
• When I say, ‘I am’, I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus, I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is known. I have nothing to desire for I am complete forever. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us. David Lynch
• There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it. Creativity, love. David Lynch
• They say beauty is only skin deep but it’s this stuff coming from the inside, absolute vibrant consciousness, absolute bliss. David Lynch
• When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us – birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all. Jack Kornfield

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Give up the drop and gain the ocean

• Give up the drop and gain the whole ocean. Swami Satchidananda
• Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who indeed should be so fortunate? An Ocean wooing a drop! In God’s name, in God’s name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls. Rumi
• God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean. Thomas Watson
• Realization doesn’t destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky. Dogen
• The ultimate fulfillment of consciousness, the discovery of the design, occurs when you realize your presence within the divine, when you realize that it also includes you – the one hearing these words right now. But in order to do that, you must be willing to surrender your autonomy, your independence, your name and your boundaries. You must, in the words of the ancient metaphor, become as a drop of water fallen into the ocean. Lawrence Kushner
• The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but a drop. This ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in its beams. Turn to what truly lives, reject what seems — Which matters more, the body or the soul? Be whole: desire and journey to the Whole. Farid al-Din Attar

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Our ultimate destiny is to rejoin the ocean…

• When time comes for us to again rejoin the infinite stream of water flowing to and from the great timeless ocean, our little droplet of soulful water will once again flow with the endless stream. William Marks

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…to dissolve in the ocean…

• I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean. Rumi
• If death is dissolving back into the one, like a drop of water returning to the sea, it makes having been the drop seem meaningless. Tim Freke
• soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne’er be found! Christopher Marlowe
• When time comes for us to again rejoin the infinite stream of water flowing to and from the great timeless ocean, our little droplet of soulful water will once again flow with the endless stream. William Marks
• What do you have to surrender? A drop has to dissolve into the ocean to become the ocean. And a drop cannot be greater than the ocean, can it? So what is the surrendering? It is the surrendering of our conditioning, of our ego and the artificial barriers we have built around us. Nirmala Srivastava

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…when we die

• If we are The Knower then, since The Knower is eternal, it follows that we are eternal. For whatever reason we do not yet know, we cannot ‘remember’ that we have always been, and we therefore cannot see that we will always be. It’s like a droplet of seawater suspended temporarily on the surface of the ocean: the droplet is of the ocean, the ocean is in the droplet, the droplet is entirely ocean, yet not the ocean. When the droplet returns to the ocean, it again becomes one with it, and the droplet will both be and not be: all that made the droplet a droplet will continue to exist in the ocean, but no longer be that separate droplet. So when we ‘die’, we do not enter into an eternal sleep, nor transition to some different place, but as the droplet returns to the ocean, we regain our conscious completeness. Scott Owen
• What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. Alan Watts

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Death is simply a merging back into the ocean

• I will die. You will die. The atoms that huddled for a cosmic blink around the shadow of a self will return to the seas that made us. Maria Popova
• At death, perhaps one’s individuality merges back into the oceanic Self. Leo Hartong
• As all waves on the ocean become dissolved in the ocean, so all finite objects manifesting from the aforesaid finite causes lose themselves in their Eternal Source.  Paramahansa Yogananda
• For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. Kahlil Gibran
• The ocean of Spirit has become the little bubble of my soul. Whether floating in birth, or disappearing in death, in the ocean of cosmic awareness the bubble of my life cannot die. I am indestructible consciousness, protected in the bosom of Spirit’s immortality.  Paramahansa Yogananda

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Death is only the cessation of the wave

• Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek the depths of the ocean behold one indivisible mass of water. Similarly, those who acknowledge “life” and “death” are tossed by sorrow, while those who live in the illimitable superconsciousness behold and feel the One Ineffable Bliss. Paramahansa Yogananda
• If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again. Thich Naht Hanh

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When the wave is gone, the water remains

• The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance. Joseph Campbell
• Troubled or still, water is always water. What difference can embodiment or disembodiment make to the Liberated ? Whether calm or in tempest, the sameness of the Ocean suffers no change. Yogavasistha

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Lives are like rivers, flowing towards the ocean

• A river finds its course with sureness, pushing aside whatever surface matter lies in its way, and as it gathers volume and resulting strength, nothing can withstand its progress. It carves canyons, moves great boulders, erodes the soil, moving insistently onward in its surging need to reach its final goal – the ocean. Laura Gilpin
• A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss. Swami Vivekananda
• Absorbed in this world, you’ve made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you’ve paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do. Rumi
• Are you searching for the river of your soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the ocean. Rumi
• A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put to the course and progress of grace before it issue in glory. John Owen
• Wake up Lovers, It is time to start the Journey! Let us kiss the ground and flow like a river towards the Ocean. Only love can lead the way. Rumi
• Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being. Marcus Aurelius
• Celebration is without any cause. Celebration is simply because we are. We are made out of the stuff called celebration. That’s our natural state – to celebrate – as natural as it is for the trees to bloom, for birds to sing, for rivers to flow to the ocean. Celebration is a natural state. Rajneesh
• The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can’t reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven… in the ponds broken off from the sky. . . Rainer Maria Rilke

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The ocean refuses no river

• An ocean refuses no river. Sheila Chandra
• Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied in itself with its own quantity of water. Similarly, when our heart is cleansed with spirituality, we find pleasure and ecstasy with our own selves that is so sweet, so wonderful and so satisfying, that the so-called pleasures of this world no longer have any values, no appeal at all. Radhanath Swami

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All the different rivers end in the same sea…

• All the mind-streams eventually flow into the One ocean Beingness. There are many pathways for the mind; there are no paths for the Heart, for the Heart is infinite and fills everything. Mooji
• As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee. Swami Vivekananda
• Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so God is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . . John Flavel
• Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it brings us happiness or remorse, gain or loss, we’re all on our individual paths to enlightenment. Even when we’ve done something we consider wrong, we’re still on our path to enlightenment. Chris Prentiss
• Days and rivers are the same; they both flow to the unknown oceans! Mehmet Murat Ildan
• For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end. Rachel Carson
• For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. Khalil Gibran
• In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean. Alan Watts
• Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean. Swami Satchidananda
• The great river follows its own course before joining the vast sea. Likewise, the soul follows equally varied routes and passes through different stages, receiving here and there tributaries of knowledge, strengthening its personality and perfecting its qualities before reaching the Ocean of Eternal Wisdom. Andre Luiz Moreira
• We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We’re all carried along, by the river of dreams. Billy Joel
• We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can’t love only some of his children. Muhammad Ali
• We’re all water from different rivers, That’s why it’s so easy to meet, We’re all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we’ll evaporate together. Yoko Ono
• What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea. Lao Tzu
• People follow different paths, straight or crooked, according to their temperament, depending on which they consider best, or most appropriate — and all reach You, just as rivers enter the ocean. Elizabeth Gilbert
• There’s a great blunder which we commit. Through communication, we try to control people…The fact is that nobody can control anybody. All you can do is flow. You can flow with each other, like rivers and streams flow with each other and they all end up in the same ocean. All things come from God and all things go to God. It’s a very simple formula which you have learned. Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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…just as the many religions lead to the same God

• All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one. Ramakrishna
• God is one, the paths to reach him (religions) are many – just as different rivers, originating in different mountains, traverse different paths, flowing straight or crooked, and at last join the ocean. He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls. Swami Vivekananda
• We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can’t love only some of his children. Muhammad Ali
• If the people of different religions grasp the real significance of their own religion, they will never hate the people of any religion other than their own. As Jalaluddin Rumi has said, or as Shri Krishna said to Arjun, there are many rivers, and they appear different from one another, but they all meet in the ocean. In the same manner, there may be many religions, but the true aim of all is the same, and that is to help one to see Khuda or Ishvar. Hence, if we look to the aim, there is no difference among religions. Gandhi
• The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly? Mother Meera

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All rivers merge with the one ocean at the end of their journey

• Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God. Dr. Richard Selzer
• As flowing rivers disappear into the sea, losing their names and forms, so a wise man, freed from name and form, attains the Purusha, who is greater than the Great. Adi Shankara
• As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of the sea, till it gradually becomes transformed into the same sea, and possesses all its qualities; so was my soul lost in God, who communicated to it His qualities, having drawn it out of all that it had of its own. Its life is an inconceivable innocence, not known or comprehended of those who are still shut up in themselves or only live for themselves. Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
• As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you. Kabir
• As the rivers flowing east and west Merge in the sea and become one with it, Forgetting they were ever separate streams, So do all creatures lose their separateness When they merge at last into pure Being. There is nothing that does not come from him. Of everything he is the inmost Self. He is the truth; he is the Self supreme. You are that, Shvetaketu; you are that! The Chandogya Upanishad
• For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
• So our lives glide on: the river ends we don’t know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore. George Eliot
• Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea. Lao Tzu
• The flowing river is lost in the sea; The illumined sage is lost in the Self. The flowing river has become the sea; The illumined sage has become the Self. The Upanishad
• The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one another’s being mingle— Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdain’d its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea— What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me? Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The ocean transformed, through the action of clouds, into the form of rivers etc., ceases to be itself, so indeed hast thou forgotten thyself through the power of conditions. Oh friend!  remember thy full Self, Thou Art The Real Self, the ground of existence the All.  Svarajyasiddhi
• The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land’s edge also. S. Eliot
• Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave! Pascal Mercier
• Like two rivers flow to the sea, someday we’ll reunite for all eternity. Avril Lavigne
• Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river’s disappearance we are reminded of life’s passing, while by the ocean’s beauty we accept it, in a hope we cannot explain. Robert Adams
• Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths–not until then can you know what love is. Henry Ward Beecher

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Each river has its source in consciousness

• Just as a river has a source, so the river of consciousness has a source. It descends from Cosmic Consciousness, the consciousness of God that is beyond all creation. Paramahansa Yogananda

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The ocean is the ultimate source of all rivers

• Just as a river has a source, so the river of consciousness has a source. It descends from Cosmic Consciousness, the consciousness of God that is beyond all creation. Paramahansa Yogananda
• The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out from within them, except for the great sea, nor would the streams of rivers nor the rain-water in the sky exist but for the sea ; but the great sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers. Xenophanes

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Ultimately the river and ocean are one

• How many gushing springs and roaring cataracts, how many icy rivulets and ever-flowing streamlets, issuing from the eternal snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas, combine and flow together to form the gigantic river of the gods, the Ganga, and rush impetuously towards the ocean! Swami Vivekananda
• There is only one river. There is only one sea. And it flows through you, and it flows through me. There is only one people. We are one and the same. We are all one spirit. We are all one name. Peter Yarrow
• You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? Khalil Gibran
• For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. Kahlil Gibran

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Believe in the ocean

• Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. William Stafford

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Be patient like a river…

• If the river has a soul, it’s a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the water will flow and blend into the river’s brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen. Therese Anne Fowler

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…and humble like a stream

• All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. Lao Tzu

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We are like fish in the ocean, searching for evidence of water

• A fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water. A bird flies in the sky, and no matter how far it flies there is no end to the air. However the fish and the bird have never left their elements. Thus each of them totally covers its full range, and each of them totally experiences its realm… Know that water is life and air is life. The bird is life and the fish is life. Life must be the bird and life must be the fish… practice, enlightenment and people are like this. Dogen
• Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God’s existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water. Ray Comfort
• If someone were to ask me whether I believed in God, or saw God, or had a particular relationship with God, I would reply that I don’t separate God from my world in my thinking.  I feel that God is everywhere.  That’s why I never feel separated from God or feel I must seek God, any more than a fish in the ocean feels it must seek water.  In a sense, God is the “ocean” in which we live.  Robert Fulghum
• The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please. Rumi
• The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish. Catherine of Siena
• We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it. Stuart Chase
• When we talk about GOD, we’re like a school of fish, discussing the possible existence of the sea. Rumi
• Where is God? Where can I find him? we ask. We don’t realize that’s like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean Ted Dekker

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God is an ocean of eternity

• Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller. Elif Safak
• One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things. Karl Barth
• Time is ever flowing and changing around us. It’s the fabric of the universe, and we are nothing- only single drops in the grand ocean of time. Ethan Cross
• None can comprehend eternity but the eternal God. Eternity is an ocean, whereof we shall never see the shore; it is a deep, where we can find no bottom; a labyrinth from whence we cannot extricate ourselves and where we shall never lose the door. Thomas Boston

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God is an ocean of infinity

• Know that we are all cells in the ocean of infinity, each contributing to the others’ welfare. Peace Pilgrim

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God is an ocean of kindness and goodness

• It’s only a drop in the ocean – but the ocean wouldn’t be the same without that drop. Mother Teresa
• Little drops of water make the mighty ocean. Even so, little acts of kindness make an ocean of goodwill. Sivananda
• Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity. Dogen
• Every drop of earthly bitterness will be changed into an ocean of heavenly sweetness. Henry Suso

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God is an ocean of truth and knowledge

• To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton
• To strive for joy is to swim with exhausted kicks along the surface, never finding it. To find joy is to let go of the search and sink below the surface, deeper and deeper into life’s sweet embrace. Aimee Davies
• What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean. Isaac Newton
• For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it.  That’s a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.  When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.  We call this the moment of death.  That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.  Bill Viola

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God is an ocean of grace

• Man is under all conditons immersed in a sea of God’s blessings. Therefore, be thou not hopeless under any circumstances, but rather be firm in thy hope. Abdu’l-Bahá

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God is an ocean of possibility

• I place my intention into the vast ocean of all possibilities and allow the universe to work through me. Deepak Chopra
• You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities. Jim Carrey

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God is an ocean of love

• Bhakti fills his heart with the divine waters of the ocean of love, which is God Himself; there is no place there for little loves. Swami Vivekananda
• By tuning in to the ocean of loving energy around you, you can have far more security, enjoyable sensations, effectiveness, and love than you would ever need in order to live a continuously beautiful life. Ken Keyes Jr.
• Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish? Rob Brezsny
• God’s LOVE is Like an Ocean; You can See its Beginning, but not its end. Rick Warren
• Your heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment. Sri Chinmoy
• If you love a person, by and by the person becomes the door to the whole. But one has to start with the person, with the small, with the atomic. You cannot take the jump. The Ganges cannot simply jump into the ocean, it has to start in the Gangotri, just a small stream; then wider and wider and bigger and bigger it goes, and then finally it merges with the ocean. Rajneesh
• Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets. Rumi
• Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths! Rumi
• Once you jump in the ocean of love there’s nothing to be done, just to be enjoyed, every wave of it, every hue of it, every touch of it. That is what one has to learn by reasoning that Sahaja Yoga is nothing but – is love. Nirmala Srivastava
• Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Rumi
• Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss. LL Cool J
• What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery. George Eliot
• Your true essence is your soul, which is external and exists in an ocean of love. Patricia Ord
• As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love.
• Let silence have you. And if you find you are still swimming on the surface of the ocean, let go and sink into the depths of love. Kar Kirpa Sahib
• The present moment is always full of infinite treasure. It contains far more than you can possibly grasp. Faith is the measure of its riches: what you find in the present moment is according to the measure of your faith. Love also is the measure: the more the heart loves, the more it rejoices in what God provides. The will of God presents itself at each moment like an immense ocean that the desire of your heart cannot empty; yet you will drink from that ocean according to your faith and love. Jean-Pierre de Caussade
• The ultimate end of the journey is merging back into God, an infinite ocean of consciosness and love.  Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj
• The will of God presents itself at each moment like an immense ocean that the desire of your heart cannot empty; yet you will drink from that ocean according to your faith and love. Jean-Pierre de Caussade
• There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the “intellectual love of God.” Bertrand Russell
• There is an ocean of Gods love available-there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious love-whatever the circumstances. Corrie Ten Boom
• This all-pervading divine power of love is the ocean of knowledge, is the ocean of bliss and compassion, but above all it is the ocean of forgiveness. Nirmala Srivastava
• When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit of love for our fellow people, regardless of race, color, or creed, shall fill the world, making real in our lives and our deeds the actuality of human brother- and sisterhood, until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.   Helen Keller
• When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God’s great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face. Corrie Ten Boom
• With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God? Rumi
• You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies. Corrie Ten Boom
• Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it. Rumi

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God is an ocean of mercy

• God’s mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God. Charles Spurgeon
• The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it’s beak. Leila Aboulela
• There’s a wideness in God’s mercy Like the wideness of the sea. Frederick William Faber
• No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy. Mahatma Gandhi
• One drop of the Lord’s mercy is better than an ocean of the world’s comfort. Lysa TerKeurst

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God is an ocean of joy and bliss

• The most rapturous delights you have ever had – in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace – are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). Timothy Keller
• From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• The enjoyment of him is our highest happiness, and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here: better than fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of any or all earthly friends. These are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams; but God is the sun. These are but streams; but God is the fountain. These are but drops; but God is the ocean. Johnathan Edwards

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God is an ocean of hope and faith

• A drop of hope can create an ocean, but a bucket of faith can create an entire world. Richard Norris

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God is an ocean of providence

• The tidal wave of God’s providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe. Henry Ward Beecher
• 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. Thomas Guthrie

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God is an ocean of silence

• Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end. Traditional words are just babbling in that presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight. Rumi

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