“Let any one try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.”
William James
(1842 - 1910)
American psychologist, philosopher
End of Semester Life Report
4 months ago
Sounds very Parmenadesianish to me! (Could that be a neologism?)
ReplyDeleteDoes he mean stillness? I hope I'm not too far off, but can't we live in the present, since present is still a measurement of time? We can't hold onto the present because time is the succession of seconds. Therefore, "gone in the instant of becoming." Maybe I feel like the present is awareness, since I can go through things by routine. And routine is just muscle memory.
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