In
the real concrete sensible flux of life, experiences co-penetrate each
other so that it is not easy to know what is excluded and what is not.
Past and future, for example, conceptually separated by the cut to which
we give the name present and defined as being the opposite sides of
that cut, are to some extent, however brief, co-present with each other
throughout experience. The literally present moment is a purely verbal
supposition, not a position; the only present ever realized being the
"passing moment" in which the dying rearward of time and its dawning
future forever mix their lights. Say "now" and it 'was' even while you
say it.
-William James
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