the ocean
This is one of my favorite poems, from Kahlil Gibran
We read it at the beginning of our week-long intensives. https://t.co/KnKqSGF9DG
There’s a reason we are drawn to gazing at the ocean. It is said the ocean provides a closer reflection of who we are than any mirror.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
―Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
With Aphrodite/Venus we witness the sea connection – the Mer lineage: the remembrance that ALL life evolved from the sea. Every organism in our ecosystem responds to, and is biologically linked through, water. We live in the embryological fluid of our mumma’s womb for nine months, so living in water is a core, cellular memory for us. We’re from the
... See moreLisa Lister • Venus: A Sacred Path. A Feminine Frequency. A Sensual Love Affair with Life.
Our innate connection to water and the sea
We came from the ocean, and we only survive by carrying salt water with us all our lives—in our blood, in our cells. The sea is our true home. This is why we find the shore so calming: we stand where the waves break, like exiles returning home. —Dr. Ha Nguyen, How Oceans Think
Ray Nayler • The Mountain in the Sea: A Novel
Here is what the sea smells like.
It is more texture than scent, because the sea is primarily made of two substances that have no smell of their own: water and salt. Salt has no smell, but makes the air sting, and so all of the other smells of the sea are layered upon the pang of salt. Water has no smell but instead a comfort. We feel moisture as
The only thing that calmed him was the sea. The wind that was as restless as he was, the waves filled with their motion.