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Those moments when his mind is at its highest level and his character at its best also withdraw him from being embedded in the limited personal identity and focalized in its narrowness. It is this concentration--necessary though it be to pursue his individual life--which becomes so excessive and so exclusive that it screens off the so-called material world until it seems to be the only and real world. It is this too which keeps him in passing Time, in the fleeting Present, and hides the Eternal Present from him.

-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 4 : Time, Space, Causality > # 177