Wednesday Wisdom: Beginnings and Endings


Daily Buddhist [Wednesday Wisdom]

By Brendan Barca & Pema Sherpa

Age-old Buddhist wisdom for modern living. Weekly insight loved by over 18,000 practitioners. 🙏

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Beginnings and Endings

“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”
- Jack Kornfield

When these things come to an end, we often wish we could go back to the way things were.

But that's just not the way the world works.

Every single thing that has a beginning has an ending.

A friendship may last four weeks or four decades, but one day it will end.

The same is true of everything in nature.

This is why the Buddha encouraged his disciples to reflect on impermanence constantly and keep it top of mind.

If we remember, from the beginning, that a venture, relationship, or job will one day come to an end, perhaps we can meet that ending with a little more acceptance.

It's simply the nature of all things to end.

So today, reflect on something in your life that has come to an end, or that you know will.

Can you let go of the wish that it were different?

And can you appreciate it for what it was—

Knowing that it was never meant to last forever?

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