Impermanence Quotes - Page 2

• Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

  Meredith L. Young-Sowers

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Life Changing

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• Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.

  Dalai Lama

  Sweet, Strong, Teaching

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.49, Penguin Books India

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• A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

  May Sarton

  Death, Failure, Loss

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

  Mooji

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don't try to escape from impermanence; we face time itself in our daily living.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Spiritual, Time, Real

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• Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Change, People, Rolling Along

  "Message in a Bottle". Book by Nicholas Sparks, April 1, 1998.

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• Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

  Gautama Buddha

  Death, Buddhist, Elephants

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• Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

  Nhat Hanh

  Long, Important, Complaining

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• There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and now but that it is yet to be obtained. What is got afresh will also be lost. So it will be impermanent. What is not permanent is not worth striving for. So I say the Self is not reached. You are the Self; you are already That.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Wisdom, Mean, Self

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (1991). “Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi”, p.26, Penguin UK

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• There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Giving, Romance, Faces

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• Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Practice, Ego, Suffering

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• Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Judgement, Enlightenment, Three

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.140, Penguin

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• What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant.

  Donna Farhi

  Success, Buddhist, Philosophy

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.12, Macmillan

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• The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens. The story of the man whose comment was invariably a laconic "Maybe" illustrates the wisdom of nonjudgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Men, Facts

  Eckhart Tolle (2009). “A New Earth: Create a Better Life”, p.160, Penguin UK

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• It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

  Gaston Bachelard

  States, Finality

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• The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

  Stephanie Mills

  Pleasure, This Life, Manifest

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.17, Island Press

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• One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

  Dogen

  World

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• In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

  Bill Porter

  Realization, Body, Next

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• Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Love Is, People, Leaving

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• Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great height, there is only one possible place to land: on the ground-the ground of truth. And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Fall, Loss

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jul 24, 2015

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• It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

  Heinrich Heine

  Beautiful, Vanity, Earth

  Heinrich Heine (1998). “Journey to Italy”, Marsilio Pub

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• Shed no tear - O, shed no tear!
  The flower will bloom another year.
  Weep no more - O, weep no more!
  Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

  John Keats

  Death, Flower, Sleep

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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• That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.

  Pamela Moore

  Castles, Hell, Sand

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• Everything you cherish
  Throws you over in the end
  Thorns will grab your ankles
  From the gardens that you tend.

  Robert Hunter

  Death, Garden, Dying

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• Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

  Storm Jameson

  Sorrow, Lasts

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.223, Bloomsbury Publishing

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