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Into the same rivers we step and do not step.

You cannot step twice in the same river.

 

Everything flows and nothing abides.

Everything gives way and no thing stays fixed.

 

Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool.

The moist dries, the parched becomes moist.

 

It is by disease that health is pleasant;

by evil that good is pleasant;

by hunger, satiety, by weariness, rest.

It is one and the same thing to be living or dead,

awake or asleep, young or old.

The former aspect in each case becomes the latter,

and the latter again the former,

by sudden unexpected reversal.

It throws apart

and then brings together again.

 

All things come in their due seasons.

 

 

 

Into the same rivers we step and do not step...

 

....because the appearance, and remember, only the appearance, remains the same.

Otherwise, everything changes and flows.

Osho: The Hidden Harmony, Chapter 11

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Everything must change

nothing stays the same

everything must change

no one and nothing goes unchanged

 

the young become the old

and mysteries do unfold

for that's the way of time

no one and nothing goes unchanged

 

the winter turns to spring

a wounded heart will heal

but never much too soon

no one and nothing goes unchanged

 

there are not many things in life one can be sure of

except

rain falls from the clouds

sun lights up the sky

hummingbirds will fly

 

(lyric from a song sung by Judy Collins.)

 

I played this as the introduction to a MahaShivaratri puja one year.

 

-- Len/ Kalipadma

 

 

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 06:50:43 -0700 (PDT) Supraath <supraath

writes:

> Into the same rivers we step and do not step.

> You cannot step twice in the same river.

>

> Everything flows and nothing abides.

> Everything gives way and no thing stays fixed.

>

> Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool.

> The moist dries, the parched becomes moist.

>

> It is by disease that health is pleasant;

> by evil that good is pleasant;

> by hunger, satiety, by weariness, rest.

> It is one and the same thing to be living or dead,

> awake or asleep, young or old.

> The former aspect in each case becomes the latter,

> and the latter again the former,

> by sudden unexpected reversal.

> It throws apart

> and then brings together again.

>

> All things come in their due seasons.

>

>

>

> Into the same rivers we step and do not step...

>

> ...because the appearance, and remember, only the appearance,

> remains the same. Otherwise, everything changes and flows.

> Osho: The Hidden Harmony, Chapter 11

>

>

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