"A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in the boat. An aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him." ~ Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
" Even though Gaea was
one of the most prominent
figures in the earliest myths,
Mother Earth suffered a
greatly diminished status
with the eventual transfer
of power to patriarchal
(men-ruled) societies.
She drifts between being
an individual character
and a personified conceptual
entity representing the
original life force of the earth."