The value of impermanence is to call attention to the permanent.
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The whole city (Los Angeles) gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell. Cut! Strike it! And then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl - everything.
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I'm sure that some of the hospice participants will be in the audience. One of them has already died. And, you know, all of us have impermanence in common.
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A group called Rosetta Life, that sends artists out to hospices in England, came to talk to me in February 2003. I lost my partner of 22 years in November 2002, so I was really in my grieving process - I still am - but I was thinking of nothing but impermanence then.
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It gives you life, but you can't hold on to it. You can't breathe indefinitely. We need to surrender to the fact that all efforts at permanence are hopeless. No structure we can build will protect us from the contingencies of life. But in the midst of that impermanence is the incredible gift of life.
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When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.
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Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
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From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and again from the Relative to the Absolute. That is the whole truth of the inexistance to the existentialist, formless to the form, Creator to the Creature, one to the every being, absolute to the inabsolute and vis-á-vis, soforth every single thing is temporary, non-existed, so do I, the dream that I dreamed off is simply a 'lie and impermanent too' same as in the mortal world whatever I do experience.
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.. Nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Eventually, everything goes away.
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
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Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.
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That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)
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To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.
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Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment. (From 'Fukan zazengi')
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Nothing endures but change.
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Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
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Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
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Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
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I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory
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Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.
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Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
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That was bad; i shouldn't have done thatto prevent you from entering a catatonic statei am going to maintain a calm facial expressionwith crinkly eyes and an overall friendly demeanori believe in a human being that is not upseti believe if you are working i should not be insaneor upset--why am i ever insane or upset and not working?i vacuumed the entire house this morningi cleaned the kitchen and the computer roomand i made you a meat helmet with computer paperthe opportunity for change exists in each moment, all moments are aloneand separate from other moments, and there are a limited number of momentsand the idea of change is a delusion of positive or negative thinkingyour hands are covering your faceand your body moves like a statuewhen i try to manipulate an appendageif i could just get you to cry tears of joy one more time
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All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, wasbut an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lastingonly for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, thehost of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there acasualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, andhere and there a fresh disaster.
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