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Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to
think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
- Schopenhauer
Imminent and Immanent
03/22/2019
The term imminent does not mean immediate; neither does it imply a
delay that can bring anxiety into fruition or become extremely frustrating, but denotes that the
denominated
development or event is within reach time-wise.
Factors other than time would be the controlling ones,
and delay can be inconsequential. The essence of the concept is that you don't wait for or worry about
something imminent; you focus on the other factors that lead to it,
deliver it or trigger it.
The term immanent denotes that the development or event is within reach tangibly or space-wise, that it is within and affects the regional domain of the
individual in a material way. Something good happening in some remote part of the universe
or outside of my personal domain
that does not affect me in a tangible way is not immanent for me.
You are free to do what you want, but you are
not free to want what you
want. - Schopenhauer
Every human being has a natural, intrinsic and legitimate desire for goodness
to be both imminent and immanent, within his personal time and space domain of
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