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Water
is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated
with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the morning's dew.
It is non-confrontational, even respectful, in circumventing
the rocks in
a stream. It makes room for everything that enters
its pools. It
accommodates by assuming the shape of any vessel
it is poured
into. And it is humble, seeking always the lowest
level. Yet along
with--or rather because of--these adaptive, yielding
properties, it is
ultimately irresistible; it carves canyons out of
stone.
- Huston Smith
As water flows through rapids,
and over a waterfall into still water, so love goes
through troubled times into emotional fall and on
to a calm, but it is always moving so we must work
to keep up with it. For we never know where the next
set of rapids may be waiting. Calm and perseverance
will prevail in the end over the river and in love.
- Anonymous
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