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What was cold soon warms,
and warmth soon cools.
So moisture dries,
and dry things drown.
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What was scattered
gathers.
What was gathered
blows apart.
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The river
where you set
your foot just now
is gone -
those waters
giving way to this,
now this.
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Time is a game
played beautifully
by children.
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Applicants for wisdom
do what I have done:
inquire within.
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Just as the river where I step
is not the same, and is,
so I am as I am not.
I read Heraclitus's fragments many (many!) years ago, in college. They really resonate ...more
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