If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.


"It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know."


"I have heard the Bene Gesserit say," Bijaz said, "that there is nothing firm, nothing balanced, nothing durable in all the universe—that nothing remains in its state, that each day, sometimes each hour, brings change."


But the basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change.


Do you want an absolute prediction? Then you want only today, and you reject tomorrow. You are the ultimate conservative. You are trying to hold back movement in an infinitely changing universe. The verb to be does make idiots of us all.


If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.


They say some people never learn, but Never is a long time; longer than Forever, which is simply Now.


"Is in the sense that the force for which Shiva was a metaphor is entirely real, and still with us. Shiva is power in its purest sense. Absolute motion. Destruction, creation: the same energy informs both. Destructive creation, creative destruction. This isn't a paradox. It isn't. It's a breakdown of language. Destruction and creation are not opposites. They are both opposites of stasis.

[…] The old name—the best name—is Shiva: the Dancer on the Void. The power that shatters order into primordial chaos is the same power that patterns chaos into a new structure of order—because pure chaos is also a kind of stasis, don't you see? Shiva is the enemy of everything that does not change. Shiva's Dance is the play of energy in the cosmos; it's not good, it's not evil, it simply is. It's change itself, and it touches everything."