For the greater part of human, activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Human activity tries to make permanent experiences that are only valuable because they change. Trying to hold onto joy kills the joy.
- In plain terms
- Joy exists because it changes, not stays same.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept change as essential.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What do you want to keep?
- How does change help?
Another view
Stability is sometimes good.
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It must be obvious... that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.
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