MOMENTS OF MOMENTS

We are an approximation of ourselves for our lifetimes.  We have one name, Joe Blow, but there is no one Joe Blow.  Rather is there a series of Joe Blows, in a state of what is called “becoming.”  Joe Blow is forever becoming the next Joe Blow. 

Accordingly, who we are at the end of our lives is not who we were at the beginning.  Philosopher Alan Watts used the example of a burning branch, which, when swirled in the air, gives the appearance of a circle.  But the circle is an illusion, just like each of us is an illusion, a series of moments, moments of moments.

For more on this subject see the 4/9/14 posting “Becoming” here in this blog.