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Impermanent Quotes by Alan Watts
- Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is…
- There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent.…
More Impermanent Quotes
- A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself. — Jean Giraudoux
- There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and… — Ramana Maharshi
- Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self… — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
- Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a… — Stephen Levine
- Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached… — Jack Kornfield
- You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent. — Nhat Hanh
- Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of events out… — Stephen Batchelor
- "All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. — Gautama Buddha
- The world is continuous flux and is impermanent. — Gautama Buddha
- For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make… — Deepak Chopra
- Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in… — K D Lang
- We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come in contact… — Noah Levine