Pema Chodron Quotes

Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

As long as you are a part of the physical process of the existence, there is nothing that does not change.

Not one is constant, but everything is changing.

It is a constant change. Not one body is constant.

Change is the nature of all objective things.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

The only thing that stays the same is change.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

Nothing that is can pause or stay.

We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, starts fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.

Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.

Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.

All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.

Nothing is permanent.