No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds
If you want things to stay as they are things will have to change.
(n.) Alt. of Transiency
A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.
Change must be measured from a known base line.
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.
All things are subject to change and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.)
I wish all this never had to change, says Rafiq, unexpectedly. I’m pleased he’s content and sad that a kid so young knows that nothing lasts.
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through night or day, cathedral or the caveWe pass forever, craving form that binds.
'Change' is scientific 'progress' is ethical change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.