There is a particular metaphor I’ve come to cherish for illustrating the phenomenon of Life, the relation between the Unknowable and human beings. No doubt it has been cited before, but I cannot remember how it came to me:
Imagine the Unknowable, or God, as the great, unfathomable depth and force of the ocean. And that we humans are ocean waves, active manifestations of the Unknown. So that one wave signifies one person, stretching out in singular, autonomous formation from the Source, but always made up of ocean, always an extension of it; then crashing or dissipating or curling away, but eventually returning to the Source from which it came.
(Woodblock print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai, Japan, c.1832)
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