The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller
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It flows and knows.
It’s okay to be still, okay to sit, okay to gaze, okay to breathe easy, okay not to notice, and okay not to do whatever calls you away from your precious being. The river moves slowly, simultaneously source and mouth. It travels more quickly through the shallows, and becomes a swirling eddy going down in the deep. The river flows steady, night into day, winter into summer. The river knows time is nothing but a bucket for holding water.
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