The Present Is Saturated With The

From the Monadology (1714), Section 22, where Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz describes how each monad — his term for the fundamental, indivisible units of reality — contains within itself traces of its entire past and the seeds of its entire future. Every present state of a monad is "big with the future and laden with the past," making time not an external container but an internal property of substances. This continuity principle had a deep influence on later philosophy of mind and on process philosophy.