#impermanence

"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."

"When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have."

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away."

"Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain."

"...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment."

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

"Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still."