One cannot step twice into the same river.
-Herakleitos
Asides
Dreams
Nothing is certain. We can always hope and dream.
Zen thought
Water which is too pure has no fish.
-Ts’ai Ken T’an
Mantras
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
Rangers
We live for the One. We die for the One. We walk in the dark places that no one else will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass.
Haiku
Love should be intense
Coming naturally to both
Work is not needed
True, that
“Do or do not, there is no try.”
– Yoda
Russian Fairytale
Go-not knowing where.
Bring-not knowing what.
The path is long, the way unknown.
Zen koan
A monk asked Master Haryo “What is the way?”
Haryo said, “An open-eyed man falling into the well.”
Ebb and Flow
Amazing how many different ways life is likened to a body of water. The constant flow, like time, uninterrupted. The thrill and fear of hitting the rapids and trying to navigate through them in one piece. I think it’s probably more accurate to compare the two like this: Life is like a river in their number of diversities.