Change

"Is someone afraid of change? Well, what can ever come to be without change? Or what is dearer or closer to the nature of the Whole than change? Can you yourself take your bath, if the wood that heats it is not changed? Can you be fed, unless what you eat changes? Can any other of the benefits of life be achieved without change? Do you not see then that for you to be changed is equally necessary to the nature of the Whole?"--Marcus Aurelius, from Meditations

Heraclitus said, "You cannot step into the same river twice, for new waters will be flowing over you." But the same process which swept my horse downstream ten minutes ago will now sweep me downstream. Things change, but the process by which they change remains the same. There is change within the Whole, But the Whole remains intact.