In 1849, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr famously coined the aphorism Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, usually translated as ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same’. Yes, indeed!
When we look at the Grand Design of the Universe, we see a world in constant change, called Līlā, the delightful play of the Divine, in Sanskrit. The only thing that does not change in the ever-changing Cosmos is Stillness, when we reflect in union with the Immortal Ground of Being in the Eternal Now.
Further reflections to come.
Probably before 1200, changen ‘to alter, make different, change’, from Old French changier ‘to change, alter; exchange, switch’, from Late Latin cambiāre ‘to barter, exchange’, extended form of Latin cambīre ‘to exchange, barter’, not in De Vann.
However, Pokorny and Watkins suggest PIE base *kemb- ‘to bend, turn’, leading to Old Irish camm ‘crooked, curved’, as a Celtic influence.