water, n.Definitions

Water is forever wedded to meditation.

Water is insipid, inodorous, colorless and smooth.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without it.

Water is full of life, being associated with origin and being bright, it reflects us.

Water is not to be trusted: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Water has a magic that draws all men away from the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

Water is at root the image of the ungraspable phantom of life, the key to it all, an image found in all rivers and oceans that has passed from the persians, to the greeks, from narcissus to us.

Water is a potable beverage found palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.