But the nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous, and if people could see that, you know.

Yet Santayana said, "The essence of nowness runs like a fire along the fuse of time."

The be-here-nowness of painting.

And the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter but the nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous.

Many philosophers have remarked on the "nowness" of life -whether you do something or refrain from doing, your life is going on right now.