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Buddhism

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2. quote from Heraclitus

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 10:32 PM

Feb 2012

'.... No man steps in the same river twice. It is never the same river and never the same man ....'
(paraphrased)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus

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Words to ponder [View all] GliderGuider Feb 2012 OP

A-not-A question - it's helpful to think about it as A (Not A). ellisonz Feb 2012 #1

I spent many decades wandering through a logical universe GliderGuider Feb 2012 #4

quote from Heraclitus marasinghe Feb 2012 #2

I always wondered where that quote came from. Thanks! GliderGuider Feb 2012 #3

a real pleasure, GG. marasinghe Feb 2012 #9

Mongolian shamanism may have touched ancient Greece GliderGuider Feb 2012 #10

What do you think the "it" is referring to in the quote? nt ZombieHorde Feb 2012 #5

I would have guessed "the present." ZombieHorde Feb 2012 #8