Day 141d: To LIVE like the River … (September 17, 2019)
“There was this beautiful meandering river that wound alongside the roadway. And, after sliding down to the path that ran along its bank, I gently pulled aside the scattering of stalky weeds and elegant wildflowers that edged the calmly flowing blanket of its massive crystalline waters. And there, in that seemingly tiny and forgotten place, I saw a whole world of living things dancing in & around & across the waters, frolicking on the scattering of assorted pebbles, and gingerly crawling on the emerald moss that generously lined the river’s bank. And staring at the wonder of that no longer forgotten place, I thought that life is not about arriving at any grand or glorious destinations. Rather, it’s about realizing – over & over & over again — that we have already arrived at the same … Maybe this is why the river is one of my favorite metaphors, the symbol of the great flow of Life Itself. The river begins at its Source, and returns to Source. It does so incessantly and it does so unerringly – and along the way it is always achieving its perfect place in the landscape’s multitude of curves & undulations.. And this happens fully in every single moment and at every bend in its flow, without exception. And we are no different, if one stops to think about it … So let us must begin thinking and feeling and indeed being like the river, for we must in truth do so if we are to ever leave a legacy of beauty and life and love for future generations.” ~ inspired by Craig Lounsbrough, Jeffrey Anderson & David Brower
“Have you learned that secret from the river; the secret that there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere and nowhere in the same instant, ever at its source and its mouth in simultaneum; always under the waterfall, always at the ferry, always in the current, always on the ocean, always racing down the mountains. The river is actually everywhere at once, and for the river the present only exists for it, never the shadow of its past or the haze of its future.” ~ Hermann Hesse
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