In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.

Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition (ed. Penguin, 2006) - ISBN: 9781101655238