"But the deeper truth behind all this is to be found in [[Heidegger]]’s mysterious suggestion that **we don’t get or have time at all—that instead we are time**. "**We’ll never get the upper hand in our relationship with the moments of our lives because we are nothing but those moments**. "**To “master” them would first entail getting outside of them, splitting off from them. But where would we go?** “Time is the substance I am made of,” writes [[Jorge Luis Borges]]. “Time is a river that sweeps me along, **but I am the river**; it is a tiger which destroys me, **but I am the tiger**; it is a fire which consumes me, **but I am the fire**.” There’s no scrambling up to the safety of the riverbank when the river is you." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[momento-mori]], [[character]], [[acceptance]], [[ever-present-now]], **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]