Sunday Reflections — Understanding impermanence
This week, Sunday Reflections brings you insightful words of wisdom on impermanence:
“To know yourself you must know the transience of yourself.” ~ Ilyas Kassam
“We are born into a realm of constant change…Our tendency to get attached to impermanent experiences causes sorrow… Our lack of acceptance and understanding of this fact makes life unsatisfactory.” ~ Noah Levine
“By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent. We will no longer sleepwalk through our life.” ~ William Braxton Irvine
“Permanence is an illusion. Nothing lasts. When this awareness arrives in your Life, you awaken to Happiness — to embracing what is, to finding meaning and Purpose in what is and to be content with what is.” ~ AVIS Viswanathan
“Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.” ~ Jack Kornfield
“Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don’t struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.” ~ Pema Chodron
“One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it — incredibly.” ~ Ajahn Chah
“Everything changes. The leaves, the weather, the colour of your hair, the texture of your skin. The feelings you have today won’t be the same tomorrow, so let go. Celebrate. Enjoy. Nothing lasts, except your decision to celebrate everything, everyone, for the beauty that is there within each moment, each smile, each impermanent flicker of infinity.” ~ Vironika Tugaleva
Trust this selection resonated with you; have a lovely Sunday.
