Yet Every Moment It Was New

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future. **

Bruce Springsteen: The River

How he loved this river, how it enchanted him, how grateful he was to it!
In his heart he heard the newly awakened voice speak, and it said to him:
Love this river, stay by it, learn from it. Yes, he wanted to learn from it,
he wanted to listen to it. It seemed to him that whoever understood this river and its secrets, would understand much more, many secrets, all secrets. But today he only saw one of the river’s secrets, one that gripped his soul. He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new. Who could understand, conceive this?

--Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha **