Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm

Anyone can hold the helm while the sea is calm

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.