165 Quotes About Impermanence

In Impermanence I trust.

In short, zazen is seeing this world from the casket, without me.

Buddhist teachings discourage us from clinging and grasping to those we hold dear, and from trying to control the people or the relationship. What’s more, we’re encouraged to accept the impermanence of all things: the flower that blooms today will be gone tomorrow, the objects we possess will break or fade or lose their utility, our relationships will change, life will end.

At 23, I took the exampleOf Moses and JesusAnd went 40 days without food.In the end, Moses saw his god's glory,Jesus overcame the devil,I got a divorce......At 33, I've learned it's best to receive lifeAs It comes, let go of how you think it will go.Rumi said to die before you die.If you follow his advice, you will live your life alive,And when death comes you will recognize him As someone you've walked with before.

And suddenly you realize: you are in every dot of the universe vanishing and arising.

Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that todayis tomorrow's nostalgia.

It is the constant changing character of our life together that I embrace.We have come a long way; knowingeach other now in ways that we did not before.

Watching indelible ink (what they use to denote you voted during elections in India) fade/peel off from your finger, albeit slowly, is fascinating. It is a gentle reminder that everything is, after all, impermanent. Nothing lasts forever!

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster.