Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.
Interpretation
Change is the only constant in life, reflecting the ongoing transformation of existence.
This quote emphasizes that everything in the universe is always in a state of change, highlighting the importance of embracing this flux as a fundamental aspect of existence. Ernst Haeckel suggests that the evolution of the world teaches us that both being and becoming are interconnected, urging us to recognize and accept the perpetual nature of change in our lives.
In practice
In a motivational speech about adapting to life's challenges.
We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be placed as a 'divine power' or 'moving spirit' within the cosmos itself ... All the wonderful phenomena of nature around us, organic as well as inorganic, are only various products of one and the same original force.
Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.
You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.
Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.
Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
There is no such thing as a Fourth Industrial Revolution with 9 billion thriving co-citizens in the world if it is accomplished on linear economic principles. We need a transition to circular economic principles and practice.
What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need a feminism that teaches a woman to say no - not just to the date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend but, when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy within which she finds herself. We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.
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