Missing the Sea...

(Photo by Remo Savisaar)

“When we’re at the place where the sea and the land meet, why do we love to look at the sea rather than at the land?

We act on the sea with our ships, but she acts on our souls with her beauty. ...How does she come to have such power?

...All nature is radioactive with a mysterious spiritual power that we do not understand, but it shows itself most powerfully in the sea. We never feel more humble and helpless than when we face the sea—and we never feel happier...

...I think words are not meant to capture the answer to the sea’s mystery, any more than they are meant to capture the strangely similar mystery of music. I think our question about the riddle of the sea is meant to be asked, but not meant to be answered. It is supposed to go on and on like the waves...

The music is playing all the time. All the intermittent musics on earth are surrounded by the perpetual music of the sea; and the music of the sea is surrounded by ‘the music of the spheres.’

...When you live by the sea, everything changes, and the change is the same as when you believe in God: you are never alone. There is a Greater Presence next to you every minute. You have to take account of this Presence every day, at least unconsciously....You always have this large, unpredictable wild animal in your neighborhood...

...Deep down, we know our souls need something wild, something dangerous, something that makes us feel alive. The sea does that. It’s the last untamed place on earth.”
~Peter Kreeft