“How, then, does water, which has no life characteristics of its own, provide the very basis of life in all its various manifestations? [ … ] and what makes water capable of all these feats? — the following aspects:
- renouncing any form of its own, it becomes the creative form in everything else;
- removing any life of its own, it becomes the primary substance of life;
- renouncing material stability, it becomes the implementer of chan ge;
- renouncing any rhythm of its own, it becomes the progenitor of rhythm elsewhere. “