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“To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew... | Hooded by a dark sense of destination... | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.”

Light Dark Sleep White Views Land Ocean Bird Flow Stones Desert Settling Sand Destination Founders Fabric Traveler Feathers Starting Anew

Book:The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

Source: The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

“We are all pilgrims on an elusive and endless road... Despite our attempts to build lives on stone foundations, our spirits continuously flow. Endless streams of consciousness ripple through our minds.”

Mind Spirit Consciousness Journey Flow Stones Foundation Endless Despite Streams Elusive Pilgrim Ripple Stream Of Consciousness Endless Roads

Author:Anthony Lawlor

“To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”

Stupid Willing Mouths Rain Flow Rivers Stones Streams Thrones Spills Rubies Jackasses

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.”

Men Matter Certain Water Fate Men And Women Flow Stones Life And Death Pool Nobility Certain Death

Author:Winifred Holtby

“Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).”

Water Flow Rivers Stones Surface Floating Twigs

Book:Eating the Dinosaur

Source: Eating the Dinosaur

“The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.”

“It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.”

Kind Enough Facts Stories Flow Stones Crosses

Author:John Updike

“May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs... where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you-beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.”

May Ends Dream Beautiful Next Waiting Wonder Rocks Strange Wall Red Flow Rivers Stones Blue Ancient Endless Bars Desert Sunlight Cliffs Canyons Chasms Pinnacle Domes

Author:Edward Abbey

“Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.”

Persons Doe Water Class Middle Flow Stones Rounds Prosperity Middle Class Cash Smooth

Author:Neal Stephenson

“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”

Ifs Want Doe Art Made Creative Clear Stupid Divine Willing Mouths Rain Flow Rivers Stones Block Manage Streams Dry Paradox Thrones Spills Rubies Creative Life Censoring Jackasses Dry Up

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return!”

“I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either. The thing is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.”

World Life Eye Universe Water Differences Gone Rain Flow Stones Empty Ears Boundaries Bowls Cactus Stargirl

Book:Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”

“... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back.”

World Important Matter Stars Consciousness Students Divine Concepts Flow Stones Cosmos Exception Sovereign Starfish

Author:Ki Longfellow

“The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.”

Mind Yoga Flow Rivers Stones Guilt Block

Author:Swami Nithyananda

“Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball.”

Hard Lying Dies Fall Break Taught Flow Stones Break Up Ex Boyfriend Cannonballs

Author:Damien Rice