"And indeed **there’s a sense in which every moment of life is a “last time.” It arrives; you’ll never get it again—and once it’s passed, your remaining supply of moments will be one smaller than before**. "**To treat all these moments solely as stepping-stones to some future moment is to demonstrate a level of obliviousness to our real situation that would be jaw-dropping if it weren’t for the fact that we all do it, all the time**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[ever-present-now]], [[mindfulness]], [[character]], [[amor-fati]], **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]