From a discussion of "Waking Life" on StrivingLife.net


"Of importance is the line: "This Becoming presents a slow-moving succession of Spirits, a gallery of images, each of which, endowed with all the riches of Spirit, moves thus slowly just because the Self has to penetrate and digest this entire wealth of its substance." In other words, life/history is a bunch of moments - a succession of images/experiences. Everything, everything in the world around/about us, is made up of Spirit, of life, of Tao, of God, etcetera (pick your favorite). While we don’t normally take note, allow ourselves to ‘penetrate and digest this entire wealth of substance’ - while we don’t allow ourselves to realize that each moment is holy, or full of Spirit, or full of life - that does not mean that it is not there. Rather, we have come to take for granted that each moment is full of life/Spirit, and lose our wonderment with the world.
In a similar way, we do not realize that each moment leads to the next - that what we do (cause) leads to future events (effects) - instead believing that we live in chaos, when in fact we live in a world that flows from one moment to the next. If we were to take time to make note of the moment - of day-to-day, second-to-second, and even lower, events/effects/situations - we would notice that every moment is full of life, of Spirit, of possibilities…"


Well, I disagee with the notion that every moment is holy. And I doubt that there's this wide spread notion that the world is chaotic, at least not in the sense that we use the world. I think that a better way to look at it would be as regulated potential, in that we have potential to do what we want, within the confines of what is socially possible. I mean, I can turn left or right at an upcoming intersection or go straight though; I can't however, decide to drive up onto the sidewalk.
As well, the notion of one moment flowing into the next is pretty self-evident, I think......As I've stated, existance is relentless and I think that, even if we don't take fulladvantage of the potentiality of every moment, not every moment is there to be maximised or 'lost' if there isn't some momentuum within it.