Friday, January 27, 2006

You Cannot Step into the Same River Twice

Osho: The Hidden Harmony, Chapter 11

Into the same rivers we step and do not step.
You cannot step twice in the same river.

Everything flows and nothing abides.
Everything gives way and no thing stays fixed.

Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool.
The moist dries, the parched becomes moist.

It is by disease that health is pleasant;
by evil that good is pleasant;
by hunger, satiety, by weariness, rest.
It is one and the same thing to be living or dead,
awake or asleep, young or old.
The former aspect in each case becomes the latter,
and the latter again the former,
by sudden unexpected reversal.
It throws apart
and then brings together again.

All things come in their due seasons.

Into the same rivers we step and do not step...

...because the appearance, and remember, only the appearance, remains the same. Otherwise, everything changes and flows.


You cannot step twice into the same stream. For as you are stepping in, other waters are ever flowing on to you.

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