Diving For Pearls Quotes & Sayings

Sophia sat in meditation on the riverbank when a student bent down to place two enormous pearls at her feet as a gift.
She opened her eyes to see the pearls. She picked one up, but dropped it. It rolled down the hill upon which she was sitting and into the river. The student chased after it and looked all afternoon, diving, coming up for air, diving back down.
"Sophia," he asked. "Could you show me where it went in? I can't find it."
"Right there," she said throwing the other pearl in the river. — David W. Jones

If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them. — Ramakrishna

If one busies himself with an outer display of scriptural wealth, what time is left for silent inward diving after the priceless pearls?" Sri — Paramahansa Yogananda

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls — Honore De Balzac