Impermanence as benefit

Often we unthinkingly believe that impermanence is a bad thing because we are so often beset by suffering when we experience loss. Here's another take on that however:

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

-- Blaise Pascal

No one can maintain a state of ecstatic pleasure indefinitely. Part of what makes it so wonderful is that it is brief, fleeting.
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