Sharing with you 21 quotes on the water element, and finding balance through this particular element. Each element relates to a specific elemental energy or quality, and each element (earth, water, fire, air and space) reveals a certain wisdom we can connect with and align to.

“I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Water is the mirror of nature.”

— Francis of Assisi

“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.”

— Lao Tzu

“You are not just a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop.”

— Rumi

“You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave on the ocean.”

— Alan Watts

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water.”

— Bruce Lee

“You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”

— John O’Donohue

“From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Life, like a stream of water, is renewed and renewed…
Though it wears the appearance of continuity in form.”

— Rumi

“Do you have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water is clear?”

— Lao Tzu

“We ourselves feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

— Mother Teresa

“Instead of allowing ourselves to be led and trapped by our feelings, we should let them disappear as soon as they form, like letters drawn on water with a finger.”

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“The true practice of meditation is to sit as if you were drinking water when you are thirsty.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

“We should practice gently and constantly like a great river that flows day and night year after year.”

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

“Like a fish leaping from water,
A thought arises suddenly.
Look nakedly at its nature.
Then look at awareness alone.
In the end awareness settles into itself.”

— Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche

“I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.”

— Khalil Gibran

“No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.”

— Taoist Proverb

“The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty all around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the self is reflected in it.”

— Iyengar

“In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light. ”

— Dogen Zenji