The Secret Of The River

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Have you also learned that secret from the river;

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that there is no such thing as time?

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and that the present only exists for it,

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not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.

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That the river is everywhere at the same time,

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at the source and at the mouth,

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at the ferry, at the current

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in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere

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They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water,

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but the voice of life,