Ram Dass - Standing on a bridge and watching time flow by

I’ve been reading the book Polishing the Mirror by Ram Dass lately, and at one point he says something in regards to being an observer and “standing on a bridge and watching time flow by.” I thought that was pretty cool because my own analogy has been to think of myself as being the needle on a record player and just staying in that one spot as time (or in this case, the album) streams by.