Oni Xuma

What you seek is seeking you.

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.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

My altars are the mountains and the ocean.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.