The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.