Material for the Moment | Vessels in Motion

"The course of Time is very much like the course of a Ship. Here's the ship, it leaves a wake, the wake fades out and that tells us where the ship has been. In just the same way that our past tells us what we have done. But as we go back into the past, and we go back and back, to prehistory and we use all kinds of instruments & scientific methods for detecting what happened. We eventually reach a point where all record of the past fades away in just the same way as the wake of a ship. Now the important thing to remember in this illustration is that the wake doesn't drive the ship. Anymore than the tail wag's the dog! " -Alan Watts