I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.