Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.