diving

"the reason why i love the sea i cannot explain - it's physical. when you dive you begin to feel like an angel. it's a liberation of your weight." - jacques-yves cousteau (1910-97)

"the sea? it's the blood in our own veins, impetuous and near." - eugene j. lee-hamilton (1845-1907)

"he who would search for pearls must dive below." - john dryden (1631-1700)

"wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder." - plato (1427-347 BC)

"divine reality is a limitless ocean of consciousness and individual awareness is a far." - ramakrishna (1836-86)

"a moment later, one of the whales broke into song, an eerie underwater hymn that sounded like the low-pitched chant of a buddhist monk." - pipin ferreras

"behold the turtle. he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - james bryant conant (1893-1978)

"...the rising world of waters dark and deep..." - john milton (1608-74) from paradise lost

"here on the ocean floor is the only independence. here i am free." - jules verne (1828-1905) from 20000 leagues under the sea

"full many a gem of purest ray serene the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear." - thomas gray (1714-71) from elegy in a country churchyard

"master, i marvel how the fishes live in the sea." - william shakespeare (1564-1616) from pericles

"every dive is a voyage into realms unimaginable - as far from our own study in the attic as the outer reaches of our galaxy." - louise soustelle (1911-62)

"my heart slows to eight pulses a minute, and i forget my body. at extreme dept, i am conscious only of my soul." - umberto pelizzari

"... how delicious it was to be totally without gravity like one of the great planing birds; he could go up, he could go down, he could stay right where he was." - james jones (1921-1977)

"ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of time." - h.p. lovecraft (1890-1937)

"in all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." - aristotle (384-322 BC)

"not everything that dives into the water is a mermaid." - russian proverb

"the sea hath fish of every man." - william calden (1551-1623)

"the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. it is the source of all true art and all science." - albert einstein (1879-1955)

"dive and know the depth; watch and discriminate; eat and know the taste - i long for people who do that." - the atharvaveda (c. 2200-1500 BC)

"the ocean is a mighty harmonist." - william wordsworth (1770-1850)

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summer means getting wet. i should really make time for my advance diving classes.

i'm passionate about diving. i'm just too afraid to embrace it.