the experiencing self is what you experience at the…

Page 79 keyword self the experiencing self is what you experience at the current moment and the remembering self is your past. You will only remember special things. If you were asked if you were happy, your experiencing self might answer yes or no for your immediate feelings but you're remembering self would have a much broader view.

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations) · Art of the Good Life

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Every flight you truly learn from sharpens the other three instruments; even your losses pay into it, for life is in one sense the steady accumulation of losses and yet remains exhilarating, precisely because each one teaches the eye something it could not have learned any gentler way. But understand who keeps this logbook, because you are really two people at once: an experiencing self who lives each moment as it happens, and a remembering self who files the report afterward and decides what the moment meant. The remembering self is the one who writes your past — and, as we are about to see, it keeps a tricky set of books. — The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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