We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.