The Present is a Point just passed.

The line compresses a philosophical view of time: the “present” is so fleeting that, the moment we try to name or grasp it, it has already become the immediate past. By calling it “a point,” the quote evokes the mathematical idea of an instant with no duration—suggesting that lived experience is always in motion and that “now” is more a conceptual marker than a stable state. The phrasing can be read as a caution against overconfidence in capturing reality in fixed descriptions, and as an invitation to humility about perception: our awareness lags behind events by the smallest imaginable interval.