"If you listen to the river long enough, if you stand on the bottom rung and tune in, the river offers unity with all things."
-Herman Hesse
Herman Hesse wove river symbolism throughout his novel, SIDDHARTHA. He revealed the river offers access to all knowledge if you tune into it and let it slip beneath you. Your patience will reward you, if you believe delving into the flow has something to offer.
Through his character, Siddhartha, he reveals the music of life, "all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events..."
Creative Write: Chose a symbol from nature, such as a river. Let it accompany and guide you in your writing as you listen and write with its rhythm. Hear the voices
and respond to them. Write with sounds and scents. Discover life's music.
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