Some Things are Impermanent, Thankfully

Trials are the journey, not the destination.

Perfection is the destination, not the journey.

This misery will not last.  This imperfection will not last.  You are immersed in them now only so you can move beyond them.  You have to be immersed so that they can transform you enough.

We say that mortality means death–everything ends.  This is true.  But the other key feature of mortality is immersion.  We experience something called the Present as if it were Eternity.  This is an incredibly valuable opportunity to try out different things–to know good and evil from the inside the way the gods do.

In the actual eternity all things are before our face.  So in that sense the trials and the imperfections do not end.  But they are transformed.

There is a vapid saying that the journey is the destination.   While false, this saying points to a real truth.  We still have the experience of the journey in front of us, but not isolated and all-consuming the way it was when we experienced it as the present.  We now experience it as part of the greater whole.  The journey is not the destination but it is incorporated into the destination.  Nothing is lost.