I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.
Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.
Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning at everybody's surface. (In the more dangerous cases, it created a lasting whirlpool in which the strongest swimmers could drown. )
We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless. . . ever struggling between our honest convictions and fear of that cruelest of tyrants -- PUBLIC OPINION.
Habitat for Humanity is a cause that is near and dear to my heart. I am proud to be a part of the partnership between Whirlpool and Habitat and appreciate everything these two organizations are doing for the wonderful Nashville community and other communities throughout the world.
Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.
