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This is almost poetry, expertly written. "The essence of our experience is change. Change is incessant. Moment by moment life flows by and it is never the same
by edo 16y ago
This is almost poetry, expertly written.
"The essence of our experience is change. Change is incessant. Moment by moment life flows by and it is never the same. Perpetual alteration is the essence of the perceptual universe. A thought springs up in your head and half a second later, it is gone. In comes another one, and that is gone too. A sound strikes your ears and then silence. Open your eyes and the world pours in, blink and it is gone. People come into your life and they leave again. Friends go, relatives die. Your fortunes go up and they go down. Sometimes you win and just as often you lose. It is incessant: change, change, change. No two moments ever the same."
- lionhearted 16y agoReminds me of: "You can never step in the same river twice." - Heraclitus
- willfully_lost 16y agoIt's interesting to me how much Heraclitus resembles an Eastern mystic. Fitting that he was both behind and way ahead of his time. "Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things." "To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just."