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What does it mean?
Despite immediate chaos and danger, the speaker finds comfort in the certainty that the situation will pass.
In plain terms
Even in terrible times, knowing things will change helps you endure.
What can you take from it?
Accepting impermanence helps you weather difficult storms.

Where it applies

  • personal crisis
  • bad times

Putting it to work

  • practice patience
  • maintain perspective

Questions to consider

  • How do you cope when things feel hopeless?
  • What helps you stay calm during a crisis?

Another view

Hope does not solve the immediate problems at hand.

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