En anglais : "Joy is like a river : it flows ceaselessly."
"The clown teaches us to laugh at ourselves.
Joy is like a river : it flows ceaselessly. It seems to me that this is the message which the clown is trying to convey to us, that we should participate through the ceaseless flow and movement, that we should not stop to reflect, compare, analyse, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music. This is the gift of surrender, and the clown makes it symbolically" ("The smile at the foot of the ladder")
La déception ne doit pas être un mur qui nous renvoie à nous-mêmes, mais un fleuve qu'il faut franchir pour passer du côté temporel au côté éternel des choses.
Le grand fleuve flamboie devant ses yeux sous la lumière du jour à son déclin, il suspend son cours dans ce bref miracle de temps et d'éternité, mais il coule éternellement, plus étrange qu'une légende, aussi mystérieux que le temps.
En anglais : "The great river burns before his eyes, beneath the light of the dying day, stops its course for a short miracle of time and eternity, while still eternally flowing, stranger than a legend and as mysterious as time. " Of Time and the River, IV, 67
