Ease by the River
Ease by the River
The Alchemy of Living Consciousness
by Delahrose
There comes a time when the self you once were begins to loosen, not from failure but from ripening. You start to feel the edges of an old identity softening, the one that pushed, produced, and proved. You don’t break; you dissolve. And in that dissolution, there’s a strange stillness, the quiet between versions.
This is not stagnation. It’s the alchemy of awareness, the natural law that insists nothing remains fixed. Everything must unmake itself to be made anew.
You can resist it, clutch the titles, the rhythms, the rituals that once gave you definition, but the river will not stop moving for your nostalgia. The current of consciousness keeps flowing, and if you’re wise, you’ll learn to stop fighting its direction.
Stillness is not death. It is a metamorphosis.
It is the ego’s surrender into something wider, the breath between who you’ve been and who you are becoming.
You begin to understand that chasing the wind, comparing your path to others, and aligning yourself with noise only scatter you. The chaff drifts, but the seed stays. And the seed, when ready, falls by the river and waits.
So you camp by the river. You stop looking upstream or downstream. You let the water come to you. You trust the law of perfect timing, not as superstition but as natural order, the pulse of all creation expanding in rhythm with your readiness.
This is where trust stops being a word and becomes a pulse inside your own body.
No longer a noun you recite, but a verb you live.
You no longer abandon yourself to the herd or the market of appearances. You stay, even when you feel empty. You listen to the subtle guidance, the clairsentience, the claircognisance, the clear knowing that rises from within.
And in that stillness, you realise:
You are not lost. You are being replanted.
You are not falling behind. You are aligning with the current.
You are not ending. You are becoming what the river always knew you were.
By Delahrose Roobie Myer
(Author of Fatima’s Alchemy - A Treasure To Behold - a book of short stories, journey, and metaphors)
Oct 29th 2025
www.delahrose.com
