Change

"Things are always ending and arising and ending.  But we are strangely conditioned to want to experience just the birth part and not the death part...We have so much fear of not being in control, of not being able to hold to things.  Yet the true nature of life is that we're never in control; we can never hold onto anything.  That's how life is.  Although we can accept this intellectually, moment by moment it brings up a lot of panic and fear.  So my path has been learning to relax with this lack of control and the panic that accompanies it, learning to stay in the space of uncertainty, learning to die continually."   Pema Chodron

Impermanence

"Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Attachment

"In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity.   Without impermanence, there is no process.   The nature of life is change.   All hope is based on process."   Rachel Naomi Remen

Impermanence

"Accidents and natural disasters often cause people to feel that life is fragile.   In my experience, life can change abruptly and end without warning but life is not fragile.   There is a difference between impermanence and fragility."  Rachel Naomi Remen