All experience is time bound

• All experience is time bound. Whatever has a beginning must have an end.  Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Real wisdom is recognizing and accepting that every experience is impermanent. With this insight, you will not be overwhelmed by ups and downs. S. N. Goenka
• All experience is illusory, limited and temporal. Nisargadatta Maharaj

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All experience passes, including difficult experiences

• Moments of splendor and moments of gloom – they help maintain life’s balance. One thought is key: they all pass…   Joan Marques
• This too shall pass. Sufi Saying
• Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow. H.G. Wells
• No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away. David Matthew
• All that arises passes away. Eckhart Tolle
• All experience is necessarily transient. But the ground of all experience is immovable. Nothing that may be called an event will last. Nisargadatta Maharaja

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Remember this to keep your perspective during hard times

• As we look back on our lives, it’s easy to see that all things come and go: winter, spring, summer, and fall; joy, sorrow, praise, and blame; hardship, ease, rest, and exhaustion; accomplishments, mess- ups, and all the rest. Genuine freedom and happiness come when we can see this dynamic, not only in retrospect but while we’re going through something difficult. This way, we can keep our perspective right in the midst of the chaos. Richard Carlson
• When you remember that all things come and go, it allows you to keep your perspective, an open heart, and even a sense of humor during all the phases of your life. Richard Carlson
• “This too shall pass.” Remind yourself of this bit of wisdom whenever you feel annoyed, stressed, or bothered, as well as when you are going through something terribly difficult. Life is very short. Our children are little; they grow up. We are young; we grow old. We will get through it all. Richard Carlson
• Tough times do not last.  Kathasaritsagara
• Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.  William Arthur Ward
• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.  Charlie Chaplin

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See experience as the passing show it is and remain non-attached

• It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.  Thich Nhat Hanh
• My life is a succession of events, just like yours. Only I am detached and see the passing show as a passing show, while you stick to things and move along with them.  Nisargadatta Maharaj
• A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.  Ram Dass
• We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences and push away unpleasant ones.  Sharon Salzberg
• What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones. Sogyal Rinpoch
• Surrender becomes easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences.  Eckhart Tolle

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