No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone. “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p. There is in the world. In “Buddha and the Rasava” (1958), Kumaraswamiji offers an extended version, which he also attributes to the Buddha: Life is a bridge, build no house upon it; it is a river, cling not to its banks; it is a gymnasium, use it to develop the mind on the apparatus of circumstance; it is a journey, take. “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you.