English Dictionary

eternal now

名詞

不可算名詞

(religion, philosophy, psychology) The condition in which all reality is experienced in the present, with the past contained only in memory and the future only in anticipation or speculation.

日本語の意味

全ての現実が現在として体験される状態。具体的には、過去は記憶の中に、未来は予期や推測の対象として存在し、唯一現在が実際に感じられるという概念。 / 時間の連続性の中で、現在のみが実在するという宗教的・哲学的な状態。

Meditation taught her to live in the eternal now, where past regrets and future anxieties faded into mere impressions.

瞑想は彼女に過去の後悔や未来の不安が単なる印象となって薄れていく、永遠の現在の中に生きることを教えた。

意味（1）

(religion, philosophy, psychology) The condition in which all reality is experienced in the present, with the past contained only in memory and the future only in anticipation or speculation.

For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those—few at any moment on the earth—who do not look before and after, and pine for what is not, but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now.

意味（2）

(religion, philosophy) The nature of God's existence which is outside of time; the nature of a soul's existence in a supposed timeless afterlife.

[Heidegger] is trying to avoid any conception of time that begins with a distinction between time and eternity. On this understanding of time, classically expressed in Augustine's Confessions, temporality is derived from a higher non-temporal state of eternity, which is co-extensive with the infinite and eternal now of God.