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You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't beThe familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skinYour head's under water when you learned to swimOn a road to hell, congratulations, you're fr…

Sanhita Baruah

Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane or "Madeleine cookies" of Marcel Proust or "Stra…

Erik Pevernagie

Behind the words

A new way to see floating.

Different voices, different experiences, a shared theme. Take a moment to find the words that resonate with you.

A moment to reflect

Which idea here would you like to carry into your day?

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The meaning of floating

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Float

(a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.

(a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.

(a.) Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.

(n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.

(n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.

The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.

Ryan Lilly

We are philosophers of our timeFloating in the moon's evening glow

Richard L. Ratliff

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

Sally Ride

Taking a deep breath, words floating through my head.

Maite

If I look closely, I can almost see myself floating in my mother's palm. Yet, when I shut my eyes, I find a different image of my mother releasing me as we dance in the storm and twirl in separate cir…

Ursula Hegi

Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.

Mitchell Baker

I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind.

S.J. Watson

Why do you weep, child? We of the Floating World live only for the moment, giving all our time to the pleasures of cherry blossoms and snow and maple leaves, the calling of a cricket, the beauty of th…

James Clavell

I was just thoughts, just air. There was nothingness all around me. Was this what it was like to be dead? When you died, did you still sense everything going on around you, only it was happening so fa…

Melissa Kantor

She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.

Caroline B. Cooney

Like a small boat adrift in the fog, she caught glimpses during patches when the mist cleared of a world far away, in which everything was changing.

Ruth Ozeki

The door suddenly jerks open. A wideeyedteenager bursts out. She stares at me in dazed horror. In a strangeway, I both know and don’t know what has just happened. As the fragmentsbegin to converge, th…

Peter A. Levine

It was floating. Waiting. It had no sense of how long It had been in this state. Its awareness had retreated into a tiny core at the center of Its being, away from the searing torment of separation, I…

J. Valor

As I feel less overwhelmed, my fear softens and begins to subside. I feel a flicker of hope, then a rolling wave of fiery rage. My body continues to shake and tremble. It is alternately icy cold and f…

Peter A. Levine

I go back to Oberlin in the dead of winter to give a "convocation speech" in Finney Chapel, the largest and most historic of campus structures. In a subconscious nod to my college experience I forget…

Lena Dunham

Sometimes she sat and let her mind go blank and her eyes go out of focus, so that she watched the slow, jerky movements of the motes that floated across her pupils. They amazed her as a child. Now she…

Robert Goolrick

A WATERY BLISSAs busy as an ice cream freezer,On a Sunday getting hotter,Happy is the honey eater-The busy ocean otter,Floating alongside Teter,On a sea full of water.

Giorge Leedy

You weren’t alone,” he says, making sure I hear every word. “And you weren’t floating.”“How do you know?” I ask.“Because I was carrying you.

Rebecca Harris