The Sun Rises and Sets, and Hastens Back

📝Reflection

The Preacher offers nature's cycles as evidence of impermanence. The sun's rising and setting looks like a tedious treadmill. Yet Heraclitus said we cannot step into the same river twice. The sun rises each day, but the self who meets it is a different person each day. The cycle is not a march in place but a spiral. That today, which looks identical to yesterday, is in fact a single day that will never come again — that one fact turns dull repetition into a reverent day.