Everything is flowing- going somewhere, animals and so-called lifeless rocks as well as water. Thus the snow flows fast or slow in grand beauty-making glaciers and avalanches; the air in majestic floods carrying minerals, plant leaves, seeds, spores, with streams of music and fragrance; water streams carrying rocks... While the stars go streaming through space pulsed on and on forever like blood...in Nature's warm heart.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- All matter including rocks and stars flows continuously through space, carrying beauty, life, and energy in grand patterns.
- In plain terms
- Everything in nature flows and moves continuously.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept constant change as a natural state.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Where do you see flow in your life?
- How does change sustain you?
Another view
Some physical objects appear static to human perception despite underlying flow.
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