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“The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.”

May Stars Water Changed Moon Reflection Remains Unity Streams

Author:Rumi

“The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.”

Ifs Way Strong Causes Nature Movement Reflection Rivers Currents One Way Streams Uneasy

Book:Our Mutual Friend

Source: Our Mutual Friend

“I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am generally interested in surfacing lesser-known histories. I like to investigate and illuminate these histories, combining them with my own unconventional storytelling style, which is generally a stream-of-consciousness voiceover involving a steady stream of personal reflections on pining over unavailable women.”

“Reichert offers us a Heracleitean stream of self-reflection into which we can step more than once, for we can see ourselves empathically mirrored in it: his interiority is our own.”

Self Steps Offers Reflection Streams Self Reflection

Author:Donald Kuspit

“People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.”

People Knows Sometimes Faces Used Fear Water Silence Clear Reflection Shadow Depth Casts Obstacles Staring Streams Dread Obscure Transparent Clear Water

Book:Scented gardens for the blind: a novel

Source: Scented gardens for the blind: a novel

“Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.”

Death Water Beauty Gone Tree Dying Tomorrow Mountain Reflection Rain Appreciate Rivers Appreciation Pity Streams Shed Floats Impermanence

Author:Cheng Man-ch'ing

“In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.”

World Past Form Reflection Casts Streams Fleeting Rushing

Author:Dogen

“Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.”

Lord Sun Lovers Reflection Longing Streams My Lover

Author:Mechthild of Magdeburg