We are trying to find out if there is, or is not, a permanent state, not what we would like, but the actual fact, the truth of the matter.
Everything about us, within as well as without -our relationships, our thoughts, our feelings- is impermanent, in a constant state of flux.
Being aware of this, the mind craves permanency, a perpetual state of peace, of love, of goodness, a security that neither time nor events can destroy; therefore it creates the soul, the Atman, and the visions of a permanent paradise. But this permanency is born of impermanency, and so it has within it the seeds of the impermanent. There is only one fact: impermanence.
xcerpt from The Book of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti
