Teaching of Impermanence

This teaching of impermanence comes from the Daily Flame of Dr. Lissa Rankin, author of The Anatomy of a Calling: A Doctor’s Journey from the Head to the Heart and a Prescription for Finding Your Life’s Purpose.

She doesn’t call it that, but the teaching of impermanence is just as effective.

I remember that Reb Zalman (Rabbi Zalman Schachter) used to say, “This, too, will pass.”

Dear Jerome,

I have good news and bad news.

However you’re feeling right now, it will pass.

In fact, if you let yourself purely feel the emotion without complicating it with language, whatever you feel will end in 90 seconds.

If you’re sad, it’s fleeting. (Phew!)  But conversely, if you’re blissed out, it won’t last either. (Bummer.)

Find comfort in this, darling. Nothing lasts forever, and the sooner you make peace with this, the less you will feel tempted to resist whatever you feel.

Don’t like what you’re feeling right now?

Not interested in releasing how good you feel?

Don’t worry. I’m here with you every 90 seconds.

Nothing lasts but me,

Your Inner Pilot Light

No matter what we are experiencing NOW, it will change.

There is nothing we can do about it.

As Eckhart Tolle says, “Even the sun will die.”

Astronomers say this too, and they predict that it will happen in about four billion years.

We are only here because other suns have died before us in the region of the galaxy and the remains of those suns (called supernovea) congealed to form our solar system and the planets.

So instead of hanging on to your old experiences, just take several deep breaths, relax, let go and release.

Books by Lissa Rankin

The Anatomy of a Calling: A Doctor’s Journey from the Head to the Heart and a Prescription for Finding Your Life’s Purpose by Lissa Rankin We are all, every single one of us, heroes. We are all on what Joseph Campbell calls “a hero’s journey;” we are all on a mission to step into our true nature and fulfill the assignment our souls were sent to Earth to fulfill. Navigating the hero’s journey, Lissa Rankin, MD, argues, is one… Buy Now on Amazon