| The notion that life is transient, that the material is impermanent, is common to many religious and philosophical systems. |
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| They exude the warmth of home, albeit an itinerant, impermanent home of temporary balconies. |
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| These kosmoi are impermanent, and are not accounted for by purpose or design. |
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| The things that belong to the visible realm are transitory and impermanent. |
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| The truth to be unveiled is that mental life is impermanent, lacks lasting substance and is the seedbed of dissatisfaction. |
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| The pictures reflect an interest in the ephemeral, impermanent, transient nature of the world. |
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| Wisdom sees the impermanent, ephemeral nature of experience and the basic unreliability of these changing phenomena. |
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| I wonder whether wifely cynicism about a husband's mild illness or impermanent injury doesn't have a lot to do with fear. |
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| This past spring, I visited one such impermanent place, a vernal pool tucked into the base of Ruffner Mountain. |
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| Social behaviour: Solitary and nomadic by nature, blue whales sometimes swim in pairs or in small, impermanent groups. |
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| Through ignorance of who we really are, we confuse the Self with the non-Self, the permanent, with the impermanent. |
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| But because everything in the world is impermanent, even if someone attains what they want, it eventually must disappear. |
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| Reaching it tests endurance, with miles of impermanent sand tracks to negotiate. |
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| He teaches the duality of existence and he trains the student to see the permanent in the impermanent. |
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| The impermanent nature of this subsidy leaves him vulnerable in the future, since he will not have the means to borrow to replace his equipment. |
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| True knowledge lies in knowing what is transitory, illusive, impermanent, and changing. |
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| Like multiple Babels, huge superstructures would last through eternity, teeming with impermanent subsystems that would mutate over time, beyond their control. |
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| Yet oddly, by freezing the gerontocracy in place, he has made his new regime look impermanent. |
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| Life is suffering insofar as a healthy body can get sick and die, our thoughts cannot be sustained, and sensations, emotions and consciousness are all impermanent. |
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| We Khmers are Buddhists and believe in the impermanent nature of things. |
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| Dr Mahathir's deputy, Abdullah Badawi, is the fourth to hold this impermanent appointment. |
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| American artist Pae White is fascinated with the idea of turning something transient and impermanent into something real. |
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| Humankind is a part of nature and no sharp distinction can be drawn between itself and its surroundings, as everything is impermanent and subject to the same natural laws. |
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| We suffer because we imagine what is not self to be self, what is impermanent to be permanent, and what, from an ultimate viewpoint, is pain to be pleasure. |
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| Perhaps it was once the case that artists were more likely to use impermanent materials in temporary installations than in works intended for longer existence. |
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| Pain, like everything else, is a sufferance, impermanent and non-existent. |
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| Members' equity is variable and impermanent, because it fluctuates according to the inflows and outflows of funds by the members. |
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| To be impermanent is already to also be permanent there is no other impermanence. |
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| Ephemera are those everyday, impermanent items produced irregularly and designed to use and then throw away. |
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| Nomadic peoples generally leave scant traces, due to the impermanent materials and foundations used in the construction of their dwellings. |
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| By following the Buddhist path to moksha, liberation, one starts to disengage from craving and clinging to impermanent states and things. |
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| This permanent arrangement of space galvanizes meditative energy more efficiently then in the Dojo itself, where the meditation space is impermanent and placed on floor level. |
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| He disesteems what is cheap, trashy and impermanent. |
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| This Code also recognises that in some cases game depots and game establishments are by necessity impermanent, and requirements for structure and facilities described would be unpractical. |
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| Ice will vanish from Arctic summers and some mountaintops, permafrost will become impermanent, sea levels will keep rising. These changes will benefit some. |
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| He nevertheless draws the attention of those involved to the fact that this type of education, which is impermanent by definition, cannot replace teaching by professionals. |
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| The ego is impermanent, the awakening is permanent. |
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| Looking to the future, we know that global and regional risks must naturally command NATO's attention, but that these impermanent worries must never be allowed to define the organisation. |
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| Bank workers, for example, warned that because of impermanent employer-worker relationships, the banks are often losing the experienced workers in the shift that is occurring in their workplaces. |
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| Faced with this heavy hand, many fathers go underground, with cash work, few traceable assets, and a transient, impermanent life. |
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| We expect happiness from states and things which are impermanent, and therefore cannot attain real happiness. |
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| All the Chairmen and Managing Directors of the institutions should not be on ad hoc basis as the organizations with impermanent heads could not be put on the way to progress. |
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| So if you are impermanent, how can your problems be permanent? |
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| Above all, the corpse, as the impermanent remains of a deceased person, is already an object or a thing, and once plastinated becomes an object of scientific information. |
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| Mobile communities typically construct shelters using impermanent building materials, or they may use natural rock shelters, where they are available. |
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| The ministry officials have revealed that the refurbishment job of the present bridges will be finished on an impermanent basis amid 1st and 7th September. |
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| I saw the aggregates as impermanent, I saw them as suffering and nonself. |
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