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Like A River Flows

David Price
3 min readSep 15, 2022

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Max Svabinsky — 1906.

I would love to live
Like a river flows,
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.

― John O’Donohue

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“No matter how old you are, you are only a child. The body gets older. Yet consciousness is always in the present moment. It is like a newborn child at all times.”

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“Don’t fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.”

— Charles Bukowski

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“It’s never been about ‘Watch me,’ . The audience is part of the performance. It’s not like I’m up here on stage and they’re all down there. I’m just one man trying to make a global connection that anyone can plug in to.…

There are 7 billion people on this planet and what’s considered commercially viable doesn’t interest the majority of them. So why would I limit myself to what record executives think will sell?”

— Taj Mahal

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David Price
David Price

Written by David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.

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