Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.
An ocean refuses no river.
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end. Traditional words are just babbling in that presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.
And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
Morning comes every day; the sunrise does not fail, nor the sunset. Give it time. That is all that may be required. Just give it time. Do not try to push the river. The cycles of life present themselves, play themselves out, and make smooth every passage and terrain. Try not to get caught up in your story of the moment. Look, rather, to the Long Story. Therein will be found your peace. The cycles will redeem this moment, if you let them, and even this shall pass.
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.
The river is everywhere at the same time. . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.
Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself.
Life in us is like the water in a river.
I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important for my consciousness. I still don't study [mysticism]. I just wait for experiences.
The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.
Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go.
Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course, George W. Bush for 'Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction. '
There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.