"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
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THanks Donna...Obviously it brings me right to the idea of how do we get others to even see there is a sea. How to inspire others to long for that which remains unseen. To understand that what they are searching for is not in the world, but in themselves although they don't see or recognize it. Great quote to ponder:)
Pamela, you did a beautiful job last night of helping me see. Thank you for creating the container for such a rich and varied set of sharings and experiences...Blessings, D
Pamela, another thought: Seeing happens when we go within. I believe our biggest shifts happen when we go within. There is the true sea, the depths of both the personal and the collective.
Just LOVE this, Donna. Thanks so much for posting it.
I was thinking, regarding "vocation"--you may want to post an occasional image quote (this one or others) in the Forum on the Alliance. It would give you some increased visibility in the community and you could also post a link reminding people to sign up of your writing prompts as well. Free marketing! :)
Thank you, Bonnie. I wanted to add an image, but couldn't figure out how to upload the link. I will make it a goal to do this and post images and quotes more often!
More images = better!
Technology = ....not always obvious. :) Thanks for being willing, Donna.
You can add an image by simply clicking the 2nd icon in the top of the Reply box where you type your reply. The icon looks like a photo. Just click it and you'll be prompted to find and add your image. It's pretty similar to how yo do it in email or Word if that helps...
Thank you, Donna. Hearing you read this prompted me to look it up and I found another gem! Here is another strong depth work image from him: “The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands
The book your quote seems to come from is his book Citadelle, or the American version Wisdom of the Sands:
The final, deeply-felt summing-up of the author's experience and his philosophy of life. Choosing a desert prince as his protagonist and narrator, he presents the timeless problems of humanity against the austere background of the wilderness. The book abounds in vivid pictures of desert life, forays and sandstorms, mirage-born madness, beleaguered cities, caravans going their perilous ways. It may be read just for the sake of these scenes, so incomparably described, or read as an allegory of man and his grandeur, of his ends and the means that may lead to them and, most clearly of all, of the moral and spiritual values that unite the individual to God.
INteresting links https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/218545-citadelle
Julie, thanks so much for the backstory re the quote last night, as well as the lovely poem you post here. Roots and sky, water and fire, swimming all around us.
Beautiful. I have not seen this book either and will look it up. Thanks for sharing this.
Beautiful! Thanks for extending the image, Julie. I have never seen that book but sounds like I should.