Absorbed in a task one experiences no instant, only perpetual self-pursuit.

Evidence

Let us imagine that moved by jealousy, curiosity, or vice I have just glued my ear to the door and looked through a keyhole. I am alone and on the level of a non-thetic self-consciousness. This means first of all that there is no self to inhabit my consciousness, nothing therefore to which I can refer my acts in order to qualify them. They are in no way known; I am my acts and hence they carry in themselves their whole justification. I am a pure consciousness of things, and things, caught up in the circuit of my selfness, offer to me their potentialities as the proof of my non-thetic consciousness (of) my own possibilities. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 724 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Thus reflection or the attempt to recover the for-itself by a turning back on itself results in the appearance of the for-itself for the for-itself. The being which wants to find a foundation in being is itself the foundation only of its own nothingness. The ensemble consequently remains a nihilated in-itself. At the same time the turning back of being on itself can only cause the appearance of a distance between what turns back and that on which it turns. This turning back upon the self is a wrenching away from self in order to return to it. It is this turning back which effects the appearance of reflective nothingness. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 513 (#expands, via linked claim)

Always be moving toward a goal. Always be actually doing something. Never be aimless. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 359 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: In absorbed action there is no self inhabiting consciousness to qualify the acts — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 724; Reflective self-recovery produces only distance and reflective nothingness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 513; A performing life requires constant purposeful movement toward goals — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 359

Broader Connections

• In absorbed action there is no self inhabiting consciousness to qualify the acts #corroborates (0.95) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 724
• Reflective self-recovery produces only distance and reflective nothingness #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 513
• A performing life requires constant purposeful movement toward goals #exemplifies (0.75) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 359