August 4

Daily Wisdom

Daily Inspiration

Celeste Foley

“Crystal Blue Persuasion”

~ Tommy James

“But lulled into such an opium-like listlessness of vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending cadence of waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity; takes the mystic ocean at this feet for the visible image of that deep, blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature; and every strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly discovered, uprising fin of some indiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment of those elusive thoughts that only people the soul by continually flitting through it. In this enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs away to whence it came; becomes diffused through time and space; like Wickliffe’s sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over.”

                                    Herman Melville

                                    Moby Dick