#impermanence — Public Fediverse posts

Due to its impermanence, there is nothing in this world truly worth doing, except working to escape.

(According to Buddhism, neither salvation by a deity nor physical death/suicide is an escape from rebirth. Meditation is the only escape.)

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Éclair de fleurs
Sur le mur
Saumon orangé

Les pétales nacrés
Dansent
Dans le vent frais

S'envolent
Sous le soleil au gré
Des murmures

Du temps passé
Impermanence
Accueillir le bonheur

Avant que la mort
N'effleure ta carapace
D'ego centré.

Texte et 🤳 Fabrice Antier

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A quotation from Cicero

Nothing flourishes for ever; each generation gives place to its successor.
 
[Nihil enim semper floret; aetas succedit aetati.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 11, ch. 15 / sec. 39 (11.15/11.39) (43-02 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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