Quotes About Renewal

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

Yes. I quite understand Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I'm giving away everything I had—clothes, gifts, everything, and I'm getting new ones, for the same reason. Not because I hate the sight of them and what they represent, but because I'd rather not have them around.

Just one drop of compassion is enough to bring back spring on Earth.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes.

There is no birth and death; everything dies and renews itself all the time. When you get that kind of insight, you no longer tire yourself out with anxiety and aversion.

When you lose a loved one, you suffer. But if you know how to look deeply, you have a chance to realize that his or her nature is truly the nature of no birth, no death. There is manifestation and there is the cessation of manifestation in order to have another manifestation. You have to be very keen and very alert in order to recognize the new manifestations of just one person.

Happiness is impermanent, but it can be renewed. You are also impermanent and also renewable, like your breath, like your steps. You are not something permanent experiencing something impermanent. You are something impermanent experiencing something impermanent.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible. If a grain of corn is not impermanent, it can never be transformed into a stalk of corn. If the stalk were not impermanent, it could never provide us with the ear of corn we eat.

There is no single entity whose identity is changeless. All things are constantly changing. Nothing endures forever or contains a changeless element called a self.

Death is essential to making life possible. Death is transformation. Death is continuation. When we die, something else is born, even if it takes time to reveal itself or for us to be able to recognize it.

There are many cells in your body that are dying as you read these words. Fifty to seventy billion cells die each day in the average human adult. You are too busy to organise funerals for all of them! At the very same time, new cells are being born, and you don't have the time to sing Happy Birthday to them. If old cells don't die, there's no chance for new cells to be born. So death is a very good thing. It's very crucial for birth. You are undergoing birth and death in this very moment.

Impermanence means that everything changes and that nothing remains the same in any consecutive moments. And although things change every moment, they still cannot be accurately described as the same or as different from what they were a moment ago.

To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible.

nature is truly the nature of no-birth, no-death. There is manifestation, and there is the cessation of manifestation in order to have another manifestation.

There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's more joyful.

At the end of every series, I think I won't do any more. But as long as I can think of fresh stuff, I can keep going.

It's extremely hard work keeping fresh.

I've got a contract that keeps me around a few more years.

I didn't know I would cry when I actually cut my hair, but I felt empty when something kept dropping and disappearing.

Rest is obviously a key in the offseason.

Gratitude for the many blessings that recovery has brought even further heightens our enthusiasm for living.

Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.

When we make time to respond to Jesus' invitation to go away with him to a quiet place, we can crack-proof our spirits, making them strong and rendering us ready to handle life.