The Present Is The Only Thing That

The World Is Given To Me Only Once, Not One Existing And One Perceived. Subject And Object Are Only One. The Barrier Between Them Cannot Be Said To Have Broken Down As A Result Of Recent Experience In The Physical Sciences, For This Barrier Does Not Exist.

The Mathematical Framework Of Quantum Theory Has Passed Countless Successful Tests And Is Now Universally Accepted As A Consistent And Accurate Description Of All Atomic Phenomena.

The World Is A Construct Of Our Sensations, Perceptions, Memories. It Is Convenient To Regard It As Existing Objectively On Its Own. But It Certainly Does Not Become Manifest By Its Mere Existence.

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

The Self Is Not So Much Linked To Its Ancestors, It Is Not So Much The Product, And Merely The Product, Of All That, But Rather, In The Strictest Sense Of The Word, The Same Thing As All That: The Strict, Direct Continuation Of It, Just As The Self Aged Fifty Is The Continuation Of The Self Aged Forty.