“The realist in actuality doesn’t truly see ‘what is.’ They only see what was. As soon as the mind thinks about ‘what is,’ the moment has already passed. The realist only sees how things were, and then expects them to be. Clinging to their love of the past, if even only clinging to what was just a moment ago.”
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