between the two

Who calculates our gain? Who separates us from the old, the past years?
What have we learned since the beginning
Than that one recognizes oneself in the other?
— Rainer Maria Rilke in Werke 2:92.
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-hearted in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always -
— T.S Eliot 'Little Gidding' 208-209

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Knowledge of sensible realities thus comes to life inside the tissue of experience. It is made; made by relations that unroll themselves in time.
— William James, 'A World of Pure Experience' in Essays in Radical Empiricism, 57