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“You define the present in an arbitrary manner as that which is, whereas the present is simply what is being made. Nothing is less than the present moment, if you understand by that the indivisible limit which divides the past from the future. When we think this present as going to be, it exists not yet, and when we think it as existing, it is already past. If, on the other hand, what you…”
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Sorry, I haven’t been checking my feed at all the past couple weeks. I’ll probably be able to get caught up soon. I had a really nice time in Vancouver. I met up with a friend I hadn’t seen in a while. We explored the UBC campus and took the bus downtown the next day. We went to the Vancouver Art Gallery and saw a Nan Goldin exhibit and explored Davie Street (Vancouver’s gay village). I also had a Japadog :)
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“To picture is not to remember. No doubt a recollection, as it becomes actual, tends to live in an image; however, the converse is not true, and the image, pure and simple, will not be referred to the past unless, indeed, it was in the past that I sought it, thus following the continuous progress which brought it from darkness into light. This is what psychologists too often forget when…”
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“…are considering is the concrete present such as it is actually lived by consciousness, we may say that this present consists, in large measure, in the immediate past. In the fraction of a second which covers the briefest possible perception of light, billions of vibrations have taken place, of which the first is separated from the last by an interval which is enormously divided. Your perception, however instantaneous, consists then in an incalculable multitude of remembered elements; in truth, every perception is already memory. Practically, we perceive only the past, the pure present being the invisible progress of the past gnawing into the future.”
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(“…this continuity of becoming, which is the living reality…” —p. 134)Argh, that should be “Nothing is less than the present moment” (with italics).
