Impermanence and mortality
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how swiftly all things vanish · impermanence · mortality · the fleeting instant · transience of life
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Meditations
A recurring meditation on the brevity and transience of bodies, fame, and life itself.
Remember besides that each man lives only this present, the fleeting instant;
How swiftly all things vanish — in the universe the bodies themselves, and in time the memory of them.
Though you were to live three thousand years, or ten times as many, still remember that no man loses any other life than the one he is living, nor lives any other than the one he loses.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The doctrine that all beings, unions, and possessions are transient and death is universally certain.
their separation is certain.
all unions end in separation;
"Death walks together with one;