How does the realization of the speed of change (or impermanence) influence our daily lives? In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius wrote, “Reflect often on the speed with which all things in being, or coming into being, are carried past and swept away.” The fundamental truth of impermanence exists in nearly every wisdom tradition.
In Fragments, the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus wrote, "The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing." [...]
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