Anne Morrow Lindbergh realizes many people are searching for new patterns and ways of living. She has been known to think with a pencil in her hand. As a pilot, she was inspired by the timeless sky. Many people came to know her because she accompanied her husband on North Atlantic survey flights to launch the first transatlantic airlines.
As she moved away from the contemplative corner she once believed was her own, she grew to believe her point of view was not unique. She encourages each person to learn more about inner gifts from the sea. She became intimately acquainted with water from above before touching it and living beside it much of her life. She felt it enriched her.
1) As the illusion of frailty falls away, you rediscover truth.
2) To dig for treasure shows not only imptience and greed, but lack of faith.
3) The sea teaches the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.
4) The outside offers clues, but does not begin to divulge what lies beneath the surface.