The more you become conscious of the frailty, vanity and dream-like quality of all things, the more clearly will you also become conscious of the eternity of your own inner being; because it is only in contrast to this that the aforesaid quality of things becomes evident...
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..., just as you perceive the speed at which a ship is going only when looking at the motionless shore, not when looking at the ship itself
--- from Schopenhauer's 'On the Indestructability of Our Essential Being by Death'