Past Quote by Gautama Buddha

“A spiritual tradition is not a shallow stream in which one can wet one’s feet and then beat a quick retreat to the shore.…

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?

— Eckhart Tolle

...Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop…

— Guru Nanak

I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat…

— Dwight L. Moody

When you're on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole.

— Louis Zamperini

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

— Gautama Buddha

It's really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“I wish I had learned to sail sooner in ministry rather than rowing so hard.” I immediately thought of the way I have rowed…

— Jackie Kendall

If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by moose, will…

— Paul Schullery

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

— Mark Twain

I have taken my Kayak, Up and down, Endless Rivers, Giggling as I paddle, Explore, Experience. There is but one River, I shall never…

— Eric Nickel

There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace.…

— Sigurd F. Olson