Philemon — Chapter 15

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For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;

✦ Connected Across Traditions

Impermanence & Letting Go

Dhammapada 20:277

“All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”

Tao Te Ching 76

“A man is born gentle and weak. At his death he is hard and stiff. The soft and yielding is the disciple of life.”

Bhagavad Gita 2:22

“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”

Quran 55:26-27

“Everyone upon the earth will perish, and there will remain the Face of your Lord, Owner of Majesty and Honor.”