Drifting Awake » time http://www.richardfarrell.com Ripples from a little-boat life Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:43:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 the other side of the coin http://www.richardfarrell.com/2010/01/the-other-side-of-the-coin/ http://www.richardfarrell.com/2010/01/the-other-side-of-the-coin/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:37:40 +0000 Richard Farrell http://www.richardfarrell.com/?p=3775

true enough: we cannot be happy in the future,
we can only be happy now, in the present

the same is true for unhappy

go figure

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past and future exist only in the conversations we have about them

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when does the past become the present and the present, the future?

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living always occurs, only occurs, in the present

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only now!
then is now!
only now!

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being present, being here now, is not a choice or an act of will, but an outcome in living best characterized as a gift

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sprinting amidst the concerns of everyday life we miss both the finite and the infinite now

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it’s not only that life is short, but that it’s ever shorter

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moments last longer, years go flying by

]]> http://www.richardfarrell.com/2009/03/the-time-of-my-life/feed/ 0 because we are human beings… http://www.richardfarrell.com/2009/01/because-we-are-human-beings/ http://www.richardfarrell.com/2009/01/because-we-are-human-beings/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:12:30 +0000 Richard Farrell http://bornofsilence.wordpress.com/?p=653

because we are human beings, we live in language;
because we live in language, we live in time;
because we live in time, we have a future;
because we have a future, we have concerns . . .

(Adapted from a talk by Fernando Flores circa 1985)

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spirituality has to do with our mood around the ultimate questions that arise because we humans live in language and, thus, in time

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this moment
is now
the next one

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an eye blinks 20 times,
20 years pass by

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