[C]hange is not merely a force of destruction. Every form is really a pattern of movement, and every living thing is like the river, which, if it did not flow out, would never have been able to flow in. Life and death are not two opposed forces; they are simply two ways of looking at the same force, for the movement of change is as much the builder as the destroyer. The human body lives because it is a complex of motions, of circulation, respiration, and digestion. To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

In thinking of ourselves as divided into “I” and “me,” we easily forget that consciousness also lives because it is moving. It is as much a part and product of the stream of change as the body and the whole natural world. If you look at it carefully, you will see that consciousness — the thing you call “I” — is really a stream of experiences, of sensations, thoughts, and feelings in constant motion. But because these experiences include memories, we have the impression that “I” is something solid and still, like a tablet upon which life is writing a record.

Yet the “tablet” moves with the writing finger as the river flows along with the ripples, so that memory is like a record written on water — a record, not of graven characters, but of waves stirred into motion by other waves which are called sensations and facts.

For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating one’s self endlessly.

[Change is] the only evidence of life.

Change is the only thing that endures

The only way we can change is to be real with ourselves.

We cannot change what we are unaware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.

The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

Change is the only constant.

Nothing exists except through human consciousness

Change Is the Only Constant

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Struggle as we may, “fixing” will never make sense out of change. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.