Showing posts with label impermanence. Show all posts
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11/04/2010

When things fall apart...

Last weekend, we visited the little town of Oracle, Arizona for a running event.  While taking nature photos, I noticed this old dilapidated home and was touched by the beauty of its decomposition.  The writings of Pema Chödrön came to mind as well as a quote by Cezanne, "Everything we see falls apart, vanishes, doesn't it?"


"Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy." ~Pema Chödrön








"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know." ~Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart