Volker Schlöndorff – The Enlightenment
当哲思用优美语言娓娓道来，这样的美，非亲身经历不能体会。这一刻，就好像憋闷的人觑见广阔的大海；又好像静谧的午后，在树林深处的小溪畔不留神睡过的那一梦；一切重新开始，刹那间，我们寻到了灵魂。
What is time?
Who can actually explain it ?
Who can articulate even a thought about it in any way?
And yet, what is more familiar and ever-present than time? So what then is it?
If no one ask me, I know. If I have to explain it, I could not.
All I affirm to know is that there would be no time past if nothing passed by
And there would be no future if nothing came towards us
And there would be no present if there was not something that existed
How is it then that these two concepts of time exists…
the one past and other future…
since the past is no more and the future is not yet
But if the present was forever present and did not pass
it would not be the present but eternity
On the other hand, there was never a time when there was notime
But if the present only exists in order to become the past
how can we say that it does exist at all, since its very being is soon lost?
Or should we assert that time only exists because if tends not to exist?
What is clear is that neither the past nor the future exist at all
The past does not exist, because it is no more
and the future does not exist, because it did not yet come to be
Do I therefore have to say, that there is only one time, the present time?
Or could we instead posit that there are three distinct times…
Namely, the present of the past…
the present of the present…
And the present of the future
The only time we can actually experience is the present time
but in our soul we do feel nevertheless three different times…
There is the present of the past, which is remembrance…
There is the present of the present, which is contemplation…
And there is the present of the future, which is expectation
In the course of our life all actions I premeditate for the future
once I have completed them, enter into the past
In the course of time,
the more we live…
the more our experiences become remembrance
All things expected are diminished by entering the present
And this happens in the time of a single day
as it does in that time of our lives
I do confess, oh my lord,
that I don’t yet know what time it is…
You, my God, will bring me Enlightenment,
you will be my lantern…
I will come towards your light…
You, my God, will make my darkness bright…
And brighter, and brighter, and bri…