Universe without beginning or end continues changing every moment, eternal flow of energy and matter.Only permanent thing is impermanence.
He closed the book with this comment: "...as the river of Life continues its eternal flow, my personal tributary will rejoin it on its way back to the source".
This type of perception presupposes the capacity to isolate a single instant (one in which a significant experience takes place) and "condense" past, present and future in it, subtracting it from the rhythm of time and thus introducing into the latter a break which, as Giorgio Agamben writes "seems to introduce a split or halt in this eternal flow" (Agamben, 1984, pp. 150-151).
Mostly this involves dodging expensive excursions to cottages in the countryside, explaining over WhatsApp that yes, even if your friend Jessica can pick me up from Didcot Parkway, I still can't afford the eternal flow of Dom Perignon and inevitable three-course dinners out.
The trash flows, unfiltered, along with the relevant stuff, in an eternal stream.
The first time, I was so busy drinking in the atmosphere and dealing with my rising blood pressure that I didn't appreciate the detail: the exquisite way a nest of Russian dolls are used not only as a running joke but as a final representation of the dead, whose names become a litany washed in the eternal ebb and flow of the sea.
Then, in each session, I left it up to Spirit or God or Divine Presence or the Tao, or whatever name you want to use for the eternal Creator, to flow in and allow inner emotional and spiritual healing to happen in the hearts and souls of these seven men.
Other symbols are natural the Sun as the symbol of life and strength, a river as the symbol of eternal change and flowing, and so forth; in these cases there was no agreement (convention) as to what would stand for what, for the relation is too obvious the symbolism is much the same in the tradition of all nations and civilizations.
Having a 7,400 square foot house ate up every penny every month, but hope flows eternal.
Greed is eternal, but when the money flows as plentifully upward as in London circa 1873 or New York circa 2013, and is as unequally distributed, it becomes a moral toxin, saturates the world of culture, makes relationships more competitive, turns desire into the pursuit of status, replaces solid things with mirages.
There's a pelican and some antelope (Schweitzer loved animals), and the Oguooe river flows lazily by, seemingly eternal.
