On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. “When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, ‘What is the sound of the waterfall?’ ‘Silence,’ he finally told me.”Ħ5. But if you are calm and have faith in me, I can sail right over to you. “When you are outpouring your emotion, it is like me trying to climb up a waterfall. “I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows.”Ħ3. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small they are imagined only that content us.”Ħ2. “The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.”Ħ1. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. “There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.”Ħ0. “We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. “Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.”ĥ9. “I feel like water that transforms from a flowing river to a tranquil lake to a powerful waterfall to a freshwater spring to a meandering creek to a salty sea to raindrops gentle on your face to hard, stinging hail to frost on a mountaintop, and back to a river again.”ĥ8. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. “She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall.
In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.”ĥ6. “To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. “They say that people who live next to waterfalls don’t hear the water.”ĥ5. “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”ĥ4. “The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”ĥ3. “The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.”Ĥ8. He looked about him and he knew he had found what he had been looking for.”Ĥ7. “It was more than just the gentle tumble of the waterfall, or the wind or the sound of birds. “Young leaves, the sound of a waterfall, heard from far and near.”Ĥ6. “Have you also learned that secret from the river that there is no such thing as time?” That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”Ĥ5. “The waterfall winks at every passerby.”Ĥ4. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.”Ĥ3. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent.’Ĥ2. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or depression in the rock behind a waterfall. ‘Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. “All anyone can hope is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.”Ĥ1. And yet the world’s wonder is all around us the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth.”Ĥ0. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. “We are all naturally seekers of wonders. “Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes, and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.”ģ9.
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