Wabi-sabi is being comfortable with the passing of time and the impermanence of things and people and as Koren so beautifully puts it: 'All comes to nothing in the end. Everything wears down. The planets and the stars, even intangibles like reputation, family heritage, historical memory, scientific theorems, mathematical proofs, great art and literature - all eventually fade into oblivion and nonexistence." In its acceptance of the inevitable, Koran says, wabi-sabi ' forces us to contemplate our own impermanence, our mortality, stirs a bittersweet comfort since we know all existence shares the same fate.' (p. 85)