Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.
Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence. . . p 259
"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.
If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to be alive, to breathe in and to breathe out. We cannot be alive if we are not empty. Emptiness is impermanence, it is change. We should not complain about impermanence, because without impermanence, nothing is possible.
The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.
Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.
Impermanence is the law of the universe.
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.
Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?
Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.
IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.
