The 2 are quotes
2006-12-11 01:25:18 · 4 answers · asked by healthyseven 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Living the moment means to enjoy this moment because of something that has occurred.
Live for the moment is to enjoy life no matter what is going on.
2006-12-11 01:30:57 · answer #1 · answered by Joe 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Without association to any quote I offer my opinion.
To "Live in the moment" is to savor what is, believe in it being special, and knowing that within it there can exist lifetimes.
To "Live for a/the moment" suggets dreaming, wishing, hoping for "a" moment, or any moment not yet occuring; to answer what is sought after.
Steven Wolf (2006)
2006-12-11 09:47:35 · answer #2 · answered by DIY Doc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"living the moment" would mean to enjoy yourself for that the time being for that moment may never come again
and to "live for the moment" would mean that your living your life looking for a moment to enjoy
2006-12-11 09:34:39 · answer #3 · answered by JAMES R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harriet Meyerson says "People are so concerned about adding days to their life and do forget to add life to their days"
LIVING IN THE MOMENT
Living in the moment means you are totally immersed in an experience. Living in the moment is easy during special times in your life. However, most days don't contain special events, and unless you learn to live in the moment, worry, fear, resentments or other distractions will rob you of your life.
What does it mean to "live in the moment"? Your willpower is held accountable for acting with or against your feelings, at the moment the decision is made. This is the critical concept of the "moment".
There is a tendency for the "will" to adopt a life strategy that is independent of the variations that occur in feelings from one time to another. If feelings did not change much, or only changed very slowly, then the "moment" would not matter, and instead of "living in the moment", we could just "live". But, for any number of reasons, feelings do change from moment to moment. For some people they change more than for others, and perhaps it is this group of people who have more reason to take the kind of advice being given here.
A simple example of a feeling that changes is hunger. We feel hungry before we eat. After we have eaten, we might not feel hungry at all. A decision to diet may be based on feelings about the consequences of being too fat, and these feelings may be relatively constant. But the constant feelings in favour of the diet are in conflict with the varying feelings of hunger, which leads to the on-again off-again nature of the diet.
The primary error, of not living in the moment, is to act as if your willpower is held accountable for feelings at some moment other than the moment that a decision is being made. If might seem reasonable to account for future feelings, especially as many of our feelings are themselves feelings about expectations of the future, but this is not how the system works.
How the system does work is that you are expected to make decisions now about the future, in the context of the feelings that you have now about the future, not in the context of the feelings that you might expect to have when that future comes.
LIVING FOR THE MOMENT
Living for the moment means that we disregard the consequences of our actions for the pleasures and desires of the moment. We want what we want, and we want it now, and we don't like the idea of delayed gratification. Living for the moment is microwave living: instant everything. Not later, now. Not tomorrow, today.
Living for the moment is disregard for the future in favor of the present. It is living with a very short-term perspective. That leads us to poor choices and dire consequences. It causes us to make bad priority decisions, to waste time and opportunities, to squander resources and assets.
Living for the moment is living without discipline or self-control. It tries to avoid any kind of suffering–physical, mental, emotional–at whatever the cost. It is the attempt to bypass anything unpleasant, inconvenient or uncomfortable. It tries to avoid any self-denial of any perceived need.
Living for the moment is jumping every time your body whimpers. It is putting Band-Aids on cancers to try to relieve the immediate pain. It is finding substitutes for real joy–like alcohol, drugs, entertainment, pills, pain-killers.
Living for the moment is a short-term, limited perspective. It rarely looks beyond today; it seldom sees more than its own self. It has a small world view, and self is at the center.
Living for the moment is living for temporal values. Paul wrote to the Corinthians that ?. . . we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal? (2 Corinthians 4:18 ). Living for the moment is fixing your eyes on what is seen, which is temporary. It is living without seeing the unseen, which is eternal.
Jesus told the parable of the rich fool (Luke 12:15 - 21):This man lived for the moment, and he is described as a fool. That is true of anyone who lives for the moment. They are fooled and they are fools. You can be fooled without being a fool. But if you refuse to confront your foolishness, you then become a fool. People who live for the moment are fooled and deceived by those riches and those things.
In the parable of the seeds, Jesus describes the seed sown among thorns as those who hear the word, "but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful" (Mark 4:19).
Wealth and things are deceitful: they promise a lot and deliver little. And remember, when you are deceived, you don't know it! That's what it means to be deceived. You're taken in by what looks good, seems right, feels good, and you fall for the lie. Living for the moment is falling for the lie that money and the things it will buy will make you happy. It will make a fool out of you. Ecclesiastes 5:10 says:
Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income.
2006-12-11 10:08:20 · answer #4 · answered by NIGHT_WATCH 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋