from my last reading: Saltwater Buddha – A surfer`s quest to find zen on the sea by Jaimal Yogis

”Most surf spots are best at low tide when the ocean’s ribs are exposed and vulnerable. People are like this too. When we’re hurting, when we feel rejected or unloved, our usual complacent approaches and all our hard-shelled survival mechanisms no longer seem to work. But lotus grows from mud – and from brokenness, in my experience, beautiful things emerge…We’re forced to go on retreat, into silence, into the realization that this feeble body and brain can’t do it all.”