We are liquid...

Such a beautiful text this is:

"We are liquid. It’s tempting to think of ourselves as more of a solid: the images abound, after all, which push us towards that state as an ideal. “Nerves of steel,” “solid as a rock,” “iron man” and the like. But that is not who we are, even though we may draw as much strength from stones as from water.

Stones do have great lessons to give, and I have learned much from their silent ways. Still, it’s not granite and gravel flowing through our veins, and to have a heart of stone is a cliché of insult, not ideal. No, we are liquid, as much as a glass of water is, as malleable and also as fragile—as prone to apparent disappearance. We flow through the world, at our best. At our highest we are closest to being a river."

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