SK On The Moment: The Ephemeral & The Eternal
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Kierkegaard on Time, the Fullness of the Moment, and How to Bridge the Ephemeral with the Eternal
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“The moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity. It is the first reflection of eternity in time, its first attempt, as it were, at stopping time.”
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“All eternity is in the moment.”
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“Is there anything we know more intimately than the fleetingness of time, the transience of each and every moment (Rebeca Goldstein)?”
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An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length (Virginia Woolf).”
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Ongoingness: Sarah Manguso on Time, Memory, Beginnings and Endings, and the True Measure of Aliveness
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Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments — an inability to accept life as ongoing.”
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..piercing meditations on time, memory, the nature of the self, and the sometimes glorious, sometimes harrowing endeavor of filling each moment with maximum aliveness while simultaneously celebrating its presence and grieving its passage.
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“The best thing about time passing, is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know (Sarah Manguso).”
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But is not transitoriness — the perishableness of life — something very sad?
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No! It is the very soul of existence. It imparts value, dignity, interest to life.
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Transitoriness creates time — and “time is the essence.” Potentially at least, time is the supreme, most useful gift.
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Time is related to — yes, identical with — everything creative and active, with every progress toward a higher goal.
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Without transitoriness, without beginning or end, birth or death, there is no time, either.
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Timelessness — in the sense of time never ending, never beginning — is a stagnant nothing. It is absolutely uninteresting.
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And yet even as he scoffs at timelessness, he remains keenly attuned to this duality — the eternal dance between transitoriness and the tenacity of existence.
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Life is possessed by tremendous tenacity. Even so, its presence remains conditional, and as it had a beginning, so it will have an end. I believe that life, just for this reason, is exceedingly enhanced in value, in charm.
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The privilege of this experience, Mann argues, is a centerpiece of the answer to the age-old question of what it means to be human:
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One of the most important characteristics distinguishing man from all other forms of nature is his knowledge of transitoriness, of beginning and end, and therefore of the gift of time.
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In man, transitory life attains its peak of animation, of soul power, so to speak. This does not mean man alone would have a soul.
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Soul quality pervades all beings. But man’s soul is most awake in his knowledge of the inter-changeability of the terms “existence” and “transitoriness.”
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To man, time is given like a piece of land, as it were, entrusted to him for faithful tilling;
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a space in which to strive incessantly, achieve self-realization, move onward and upward.
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Yes, with the aid of time, man becomes capable of wresting the immortal from the mortal.
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Carpe Diem!
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