One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
DōgenTags: world zen awareness impermanence
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.
Zeena SchreckTags: truth progress disillusionment reality ignorance illusion discovery impermanence spiritual-transformation
En resumidas cuentas, ¡tus amigos te honran! Eres a menudo causa de su alegría y a tu corazón le parece como si no pudiera estar sin ellos; pero... ¿si te fueras, si te apartaras de este círculo? ¿Sentirían... cuánto tiempo sentirían el vacío que tu pérdida arranca en su destino? ¿Cuánto tiempo?
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: impermanence
Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.
Eric Micha'el LeventhalTags: reality buddhism eternity time zen change miracles awareness permanence impermanence changelessness
Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.
Zeena SchreckTags: reality freedom death magic spirituality illusion gods magick impermanence shamanism animism taboos tantra shapeshifter tai-chi self-identity animal-liberation tai-chi-chuan materialism-versus-spiritualism totemism shamanic left-hand-path zeena-schreck magick-and-faith spiritual-transformation spiritual-journey shamanism-healing animal-totem deity-yoga martial-art-training gods-and-warriors tantric-buddhism vamamarga taboo-breaking plant-spirits sacred-travel shamanic-healing spirit-possession
But what a universe, anyhow! No use blaming human-beings for what they were. Everything was made so that it had to torture something else. Sirius himself was no exception, of course. Made that way! Nothing was responsible for being by nature predatory on other things, dog on rabbit and Argentine beef, man on nearly everything, bugs and microbes on man, and of course man himself on man. (Nothing but man was really cruel, vindictive, except perhaps the loathly cat). Everything desperately struggling to keep its nose above water for a few breaths before its strength inevitably failed and down it went, pressed under by something else. And beyond, those brainless, handless idiotic stars, lazing away so importantly for nothing. Here and there some speck of a planet dominated by some half-awake intelligence like humanity. And here and there on such planets, one or two poor little spirits waking up and wondering what in the hell everything was for, what it was all about, what they could make of themselves; and glimpsing in a muddled way what their potentiality was, and feebly trying to express it, but always failing, always missing fire, and very often feeling themselves breaking up as he himself was doing. Just now and then they might feel the real thing, in some creative work, or in sweet community with another little spirit, or with others. Just now and then they seemed somehow to create or to be gathered up into something lovelier than their individual selves, something which demanded their selves’ sacrifice and yet have their selves new life. But how precariously, torturingly; and only just for a flicker of time! Their whole life-time would only be a flicker in the whole of titanic time. Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold there’ll still be time. Oh God, what for?
Olaf StapledonTags: impermanence
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