Comments on: Anais Nin, Wayne Gretzky, and The Great Gatsby – Past and Future Present

By: Dorothy Ralphs

Dorothy Ralphs — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:57:00 +0000

I say live life to the fullest every moment, for each moment is but a memory as soon as it takes place. Memories are really all we have.

By: Linda Shaffer

Linda Shaffer — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:07:55 +0000

The concept of time has been a mind trip since I read "Sidhartha" by Herman Hesse as a teenager. There was a conversation between Sidhartha and the boatkeeper where the boatkeeper explained there was no such thing as time. It is all one. The concept as I recall (and my recollection these 40 years later could be entirely false) was to see time as a tapestry. You can move your eyes from one image to the next, or one color or one thread to the next, or you can look at the tapestry as a whole. It's all the same. I think Martha is right, we are in a constant state of present past and present future. Now let's all go drop some acid and discuss.

By: Jan hein van Joolen

Jan hein van Joolen — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:35:07 +0000

Aha we are into philosophy, time is an illusion.
Considerare sub specie aeternitatus, Spinoza said.
Which means consider all things in the light of eternity.
Logic is timeless, reason is timeless.
The past is nothing more than memory now, the eternal now, must be timeless.
The future is an idea now of what might happen later, yet also later will always be now, the eternal now.
Experience is only now.
Both past and future are pictures, imaginations, in the now, the eternal now , that knows no time.
No nostalgia, craving for the past , nor hope for the future can have a fundament, just imaginations, illusions.
Relaxing in the now is all there is, it will all evolve by itself, all that happens happens necessarily, could not have been differently.
Time is the fear of death of the I. When time is gone, I am gone, dissolved in Onenness.
And true happiness, whatever the circumstances, peeps around the corner