Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are.
Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.
The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.
My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
We think of our future as anticipated memories.
I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.