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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.