The Present Is The Only

An Animal That Embarks On Forming States Without Greatly Restricting Egoism Will Perish.

This Life Of Yours Which You Are Living Is Not Merely A Piece Of This Entire Existence, But In A Certain Sense The Whole; Only This Whole Is Not So Constituted That It Can Be Surveyed In One Single Glance. This, As We Know, Is What The Brahmins Express In That Sacred, Mystic Formula Which Is Yet Really So Simple And So Clear; Tat Tvam Asi, This Is You. Or, Again, In Such Words As "i Am In The East And The West, I Am Above And Below, I Am This Entire World."

[a Living Organism] ... Feeds Upon Negative Entropy ... Thus The Device By Which An Organism Maintains Itself Stationary At A Fairly High Level Of Orderliness (= Fairly Low Level Of Entropy) Really Consists In Continually Sucking Orderliness From Its Environment.

The Unphilosophical And Philosophical Attitudes Can Be Very Sharply Distinguished (with Scarcely Any Intermediate Forms) By The Fact That The First Accepts Everything That Happens As Regards Its General Form, And Finds Occasion For Surprise Only In That Special Content By Which Something That Happens Here Today Differs From What Happened There Yesterday; Whereas For The Second, It Is Precisely The Common Features Of All Experience, Such As Characterise Everything We Encounter, Which Are The Primary And Most Profound Occasion For Astonishment.

Whence Come I And Whither Go I? That Is The Great Unfathomable Question. Science Has No Answer To It.