“Time flows away like the water in the river.”
“the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man”
Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka
“Life is flowing away like water running out from a leaky vessel.”
Vairagyaśatakam 38 https://archive.org/stream/Vairagya.Satakam.of.Bhartrihari#page/n28/mode/1up
Śatakatraya
“Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.”
Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole
“Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.”
Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
“Flow greatest like the greatest lakes / Capes on great estates, quiet water major waves”
From "Priority"
Album The Ecstatic
The Art of Peace (1992)
Context: Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.
Life of Christ
Source: Winter Rose (1996), Chapter 7, p. 64.
