Omnia mutantur, nihil interit, everything changes, nothing perishes ―Ovid

 

Woman Encircled by the Flight of a Bird, 1941, Joan Miro

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So often in life, we move beyond what we imagined we were capable of, and breaking through that boundary propels us toward transformation. Someone once said, "Death comes not to you, but to someone else whom the gods make ready." This sentiment feels true to me. The person I am today, living in this story, is not exactly the same person as the one who will die. Life and death will change me. I will be different in some very fundamental ways. For something new to emerge within us, we must be open to change.

...Dont wait. Everything we need is right in front of us. Impermanence is the doorway to possibility. Embracing it is where true freedom lies.


—Frank Ostaseski
The Five Invitations

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If we learn to let go into uncertainty, to trust that our basic nature and that of the world are not different, then the fact that things are not solid and fixed becomes, rather than a threat, a liberating opportunity.


—Carol Hyman
Living and Dying: A Buddhist Perspective

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No permanence is ours; we are a wave 

That flows to fit whatever form it finds: 

Through day or night, cathedral or the cave 

We pass forever, craving form that binds.

—Hermann Hesse

from “Lament” in The Glass Bead Game

Clara and Richard Winston

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