Sunday Dinner: Secrets of the River

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“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.”

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Hermann Hesse

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“We must begin thinking like a river

if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life

for future generations.”

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David Brower

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“Ask the river, where it comes from?

You will get no answer.

Ask the river, where is it going?

You will get no answer,

because the river lives

inside this very moment;

neither in the past nor in the future,

in this very moment only!”

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Mehmet Murat ildan

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Black’s Point, Jamestown Island in the James River

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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2017

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