Daily Reflection
"Awareness of impermanence and appreciation of our human potential will give us a sense of urgency that we must use every precious moment." - Dalai Lama1
Let’s start with a few facts:
The sun will implode in about 5 billion years
The Dinosaurs lived for about 165 million years prior to nearly instant extinction
Homo Sapiens have existed for about 200,000 years.
The earth is set to be between 3 and 8 Degrees Celsius warmer by 2100
Your chances of being born are about 1 in 400 trillion
All this week we’ve been talking about the starkness of impermanence and ways people have been grappling with that awareness throughout the centuries.
But there’s another side to this conversation: the vastness and unique nature of our very existence. In many respects, impermanence reminds us how amazing it is that we exist at all.
We could not exist, after all.
But we do. And in the limited time that we all have in existence—from the dinosaurs to presidents—it seems that nothing is really expect…
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