A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
if in your daily life you can produce beautiful thoughts, beautiful speech, and compassionate action, you will continue beautifully in the future in many ways. The dissolution of this body is not the end of anything. That insight is crucial for true happiness and non-fear.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Answers from the Heart: Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions
Being in contact with life in the present moment, we observe deeply what is. Then we are able to see the impermanent and selfless nature of all that is. Impermanence and selflessness are not negative aspects of life but the very foundations on which life is built. Impermanence is the constant transformation of things. Without impermanence, there ca
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That is all we have, this moment with the world. It will not last, because nothing lasts. Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the universe consists of losing, and no matter how much we find along the way, life amounts to a reverse savings account in which we are eventually robbed of everything. Our dreams and plans and jobs and knees... See more