You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast the...
As I age in the world it will rise and spread,and be for this place horizonand orison, the voice of its winds.I have made myself a dream to dreamof its rising, that has gentled my nights.Let me desire...
(n.) Alt. of Transiency
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.
'Change' is scientific 'progress' is ethical change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking.
Change must be measured from a known base line.
All things are subject to change and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.)
If you want things to stay as they are things will have to change.
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.
No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds
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