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Let's consider present moment, this instant which has no duration because as soon as we try "to seize it" , this moment is a passed time :
"Moment seems to indicate something as the departure point of a direction change. Indeed, certainly it is not from rest still in rest that change is made ; as, it is not from movement still in movement that change is made. But moment, which we cannot "place", nevertheless is located between movement and rest, because moment is not in a lapse of time.
And quite naturally, indeed, it is from this moment that things which are in movement are changing of state to go in rest, and things which are in rest, are changing of state to enter in movement." (Cf. Plato – Parmenide – 156e).
Expressed differently, moment appears as an eternal present which, paradoxically, separates and unites the past and the future with a remarkable property : to be, always, the same in its nature and its meaning, although it participates of different contexts.
For example, beings use same present moment of their birth to their death.
Present moment therefore enables the division of the actualizations (materializations to become realities) of the time, but, itself, is not divisible.
Another remarkable fact,
moments are not affected by the relativity's constraints, and cannot be joined together to form the lapses of time because they have no duration (otherwise, in them, the past and the future would be merged).
For that, the moment is an absolute reference.
So, analysis of the present moment by saint Augustine, is very pertinent :
"I know that there would not be nor, if nothing was finishing, the past ; nor if nothing was occuring, future time ; and nor if nothing was existing, the present time,...
As for a present, that is always present, that is not going to a past, it would not be a time, it would be eternity.
If therefore, present to be of the time, only becomes present because it goes to past, what is its state ?… " (cf. - Confessions – Book XI, 14).
Yes, present moment is representative of eternity and omnipresent, implicated in all beings, ipso facto, in all real world.
For example,
we are transforming ourselves ceaselessly, physically, in course of existence, but we continue to be the same, spiritually, with our immutable ego (I, spirit),
and the I (ego, spirit), although he is able to transcend body (our physical identity), to move in space and to utilize time, must, constantly, recognize, judge, ..., choose in the present moment, his only absolute reference.
Many facts which lead us to postulate realism (existence) of a timeless domain that is realm of our spiritual identity, which is realm of the souls !
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