The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence. — Meredith L. Young-Sowers Copy Share Image
If we lived forever, if the dews of Adashino never vanished, if the crematory smoke on Toribeyama never faded, men would hardly… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.” — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My… — Cheng Man-ch'ing Copy Share Image
Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no… — Ovid Copy Share Image
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I've known supreme happiness, and I'm not greedy enough to want what I have to go on forever. Every dream ends. Wouldn't… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That… — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“that was bad; i shouldn't have done that to prevent you from entering a catatonic state i am going to maintain a… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted,… — Christophe Agou Copy Share Image
Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and… — Dōgen Zenji Copy Share Image
