To realize in its completeness the universal beauty and perfection of the works of God, we must recognize a certain perpetual and very free progress of the whole universe. There must always remain, in the abyss of things, slumbering parts which have yet to be awakened.

-- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"On The Ultimate Organization of Things" (1697)

This is a really beautiful insight. Change is constant and a necessary ingredient to growth. To stop that is to die. I struggle with accepting change and constant flux in my life each day. I should remember this more often.