River Cannot Go Back ~ Khalil Gibran – Sunnys Journal

The River Cannot Go Back ~ Khalil Gibran

“It is said that before entering the sea, a river trembles with fear.
It looks back at the path it has travelled; from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road, crossing forests and villages.
And in front of it, there is an ocean so vast, that to enter it seems nothing more than to disappear forever.

But there is no other way.

The river cannot go back. Nobody can go back. To go back is impossible in existence.

The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then, will fear disappear because that’s when the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.” [sunnysjournal.com]