Nothing is real except the “here and now”. Now is the present, whatever it is that I’m aware of, a moment with what we call memories or expectations. It’s important to understand that the now is not a measure of time, it is an instant, point zero, a smidgen, that’s now. The past has passed and the future is yet to come. The main idea behind the here and now emphasizes feeling, living, discovering and exploring. Only after we live these psychological processes can we begin to understand the importance of thinking, learning and understanding.
Fritz and Laura Perls attribute the first usage of the “here and now” phrase to Otto Rank. The “now”, covers everything that exists and includes the balance of being “here”. It’s the experience, the implication, being aware. The “how” includes everything that is structure, everything that happens, the continuous process; anything else is irrelevant. This takes us to state that nothing exists without previously considering the here and now. In order to feel anything, to sense the here and now, we have to begin working with the senses (hearing, vision, tact, tone of voice, etc.) This phenomenological definition understands that the
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This is the primary application of the here and now: the whole is more than the sum of its parts. An oriental description of the meaning of the here and now was explained by Buddhist Master Deshimaru when one of his disciples asked him: “What is the meaning of the here and now? He responded: “It is deep philosophy. Here and now means being completely attuned to what you are doing in that instant, with no thought of the past or the future. If you cannot be happy here and now, you will never be happy.” On the other hand, Jules Romains stated that “youth is the time you have ahead of you”, referring to the concept of
In chapter ten of the book “Problems from Philosophy”, by James Rachels, the author, the author discusses the possibilities of human beings living in an actually reality, or if we are just living in an illusion. Rachels guides us through concepts that try to determine wiether we are living in a world were our perception of reality is being challenged, or questioned. Rachels guides us through the topic of “Our Knowledge of the World around Us”, through the Vats and Demons, idealism, Descartes Theological Response, and direct vs. indirect realism.
Does what one sees and hear in life really mean that it is true? Just because one sees a dinosaur in the shadow, does it mean it is real? In the Allegory of the Cave and “The Matrix” one may question what is real and what is fake.
...you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but its decades before you admit it” (Gruen 5). Here Jacob is saying that people like to live in and think about their past ages and try to hold on to those instead of living in the present. People lose sight of what’s actually in front of them and usually waste their life way. Life passes to quickly; people need to just go after what they want so that they can live happily with a life filled with no regrets.
The mindset of the new generation. It is the advice that’s been heard from the old generations. Live for today. Carpe Diem, “seize the day.” Today, this phrase should be prominent in society; many people want to live every day as if it’s their last on Earth. What I mean is that people want to experience everything they can within the duration of their lives. Henry David Thoreau is an example of one of these individuals; however he chose to document and say, what he supposed, was the exact definition of carpe diem itself. The publication of Walden solidified why he is closely related to this genre in literature. Nevertheless, with any author, you must know about their background and life to understand their works.
Exploring the duality of memory; how we perceive the past, learning about the duality of the present; how we are constantly between the expectation of the future and past experience, as well as coming to the realization of the duality of life and death; how we are always living and dying at the same time. We are constantly in a state of suspension between dual experiences, whether they be life and death, love and loss, hot and cold, fast and slow, close and far, or past and future. There is no differentiating between them as they are all interconnected and depend on each other for their own existence. There would not be one without the other and we cannot appreciate the good without the bad. Life comes with infinite possibilities and even more ways to experience them, so we must take it all in with acceptance and appreciate the suspension act of life while we
Reality for everyone is different, and anyone can interpret it in many different ways. Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” and Salvador Dali’s painting “The Persistence of Memory” show us how reality can be perceived as something else. The way one see’s reality can be totally wrong to what reality really is. So, what does reality mean? Living in a world with shadows, ideas transcending the physical world, and believing that knowledge comes from what is seen and heard can confuse what reality is perceived as.
Does anybody really know what is real anymore I guess we do. Take that your stung by a bee or something else you feel the pain that is real. However when you go to sleep and have a dream that you and a relative that passed away are fishing or something is that real? It might seem that way at that point but you never really know.
According to Tatarkiewicz, in order to grapple with the idea that the present plays such a small role in our perception of happiness, we must realize that our perception of the present is ambiguous. This means that each person experiences the present differently. Tatarkiewicz makes this clear when he says, “According to one notion, the present is made up of what one is experiencing at a given moment. According to another, it is made up of everything which is in existence in that moment” (Tatarkiewicz 199). There is no way to truly say what is the present, but it can be ascertained that our present experiences linger in our consciousness even after the present moment. Because of these problems, Tatarkiewicz introduces a new idea, the present period. The present period differs from the present moment because it is the time that surrounds the present moment, both in the past and future. The present period moves with our life. it can be longer or shorter at times, and the period that makes up the present period keeps pace with our lives (Tatarkiewicz
I believe that the notion that the present, or this exact moment, is considered to be the “favored” piece of time is untrue. This is a challenging concept to embrace because we have been conditioned to view time as a linear entity since birth, with everyday experiences seeming to corroborate the idea that time moves in one direction, that all that is real is contained within the experience of the current moment. Instead, time is more of a homogenous space. The present moment is nothing more than an arbitrary point where we rest, sort of like a cosmic “you are here” sign. In the following paper I will show how eternalism, the idea that all time is existing at all moments in the same way, is the true way in which time functions, where presentism,
The question of what it means to live a good life revolves around human nature all the time. Philosophers try to justify what a person needs to do to live the best life. Some philosophers argue happiness makes a life whole, and there are certain actions one takes to earn a good life. The next question these philosophers try to answer is whether a good life is comprised by living life in the pursuit of happiness and living justly. Plato, St Thomas, Marx, and Kant are among the philosophers that explored this question.
Secondly, it addresses how we think and feel about ourselves and circumstances in the present, and
THE POWER OF THE MOMENT: The ability to stay in the present is a virtue. Most people are always living either in the past or in the future. So they are either worrying about the past, worrying about the past pains, the past results, the past failures, past relationships, past struggles, or they are ruminating about the future fears, the future impossibilities, the future achievements, future possibilities. Worrying about the past or future would not benefit you as you are putting yourself in a position of disadvantage.
“Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.” ― Meryl Streep. I love exploring and gaining knowledge about the beautiful craft of acting. During my journey of being an actor, I notice there are two types of actors: stage and film. Stage and film actors are different in their times of rehearsal, their relationship with an audience, and their emotional challenges.
There are two different but similar stages in a person’s life: childhood and adulthood. I remember when I was a child, all I ever wanted to do was being an adult. Now that I am an adult or semi adult, I wish to be a child again. Looking back at my childhood everything seemed so easy. Now that I’m out in the “real world” everything seems to be ten times harder. As we continue to grow and develop we go through several stages of life. These characteristics can be distinguished by these similarities and differences: our thoughts in each stage, our actions in each stage, and our experiences.
The 21st Century is just around the corner and with it will come many changes in today’s modern society. Changes occur daily, yet taken into view yearly these changes become extremely noticeable. The people of today’s society are changing everyday, and therefore so is the world. This report will express personal beliefs on what will occur in the 21st century. Within it are examples such as, crime rates, personalities, religion, and living environments.