The Divine Ocean

The closer one's consciousness is to the divine ocean, the more he senses the inner unity of all things, and the more naturally therefore he lives at peace with the universe.  The more one's mind is drawn to the ceaseless play of duality, the more he beholds everything in conflict with everything else, and consequently the less harmony he finds in himself and in others.  Low waves, close to the ocean bosom, are more suggestive of the calm ocean depths than tall waves crashing together in a storm.  The consciousness of humble, spiritual people is still a part of universal duality, but the love and joy they express is a self-giving love, a joy not in specific things, but in the Self.  The more, however, one concentrates on the storm of duality, the more the divine quality of love becomes broken up into numberless desires and attachments, and joy into a host of petty enthusiasms.  Where the waves rise high, their corresponding troughs are deeper by that much.  Where love is broken up into many worldly desires, it wil manifest as antipathies: Likes are inevitably balanced by dislikes. If one's likes are intense, one's dislikes will be intense also. 

From The Art and Science of Raja Yoga by Swami Kriyananda