So, a moment, how would you define a moment?

So again, this is an immediate relief.

We refer in big history to these moments as threshold moments.

So, a moment.

When you're totally in the moment, when I'm totally in the moment, the vessel of expression is open.

Another moment.

So, fast forward a few years.

It wins or loses at that point.

So, a moment.

And everybody disappeared from the street.

It will always be remembered.

I am immediately in awe of you!

All of a sudden I'm filled with great admiration for you!

But then this changed suddenly.

At that moment, we transcend space and time together.

Eve Ensler Suddenly, my body

That blip, that information, shot into you before that.

Go from one world to another in a second.

It's just a moment. That's all it is, a moment. OK?

Sometimes they're a little bit more abstract.

But this was the emotional moment.

It's crushing when the audience sees it the right way.

It is something that is a unique instant in the history of all of life.

But in that instant, I get to share your present.

There was a great TED moment, I think it was Sir Ken Robinson, was it?

For a moment, the entire crowd had forgotten their differences.

It's a moment that you can't make sense of.

And you'll see in a second there, he comes back down to the floor.

Out of the emptiness comes a moment of creativity.

But that's the moment she's surgically removing herself from that.

It takes a long time for the muscle to contract, and a very short time for the limb to fly out.

But the truth is life is being lived there.

They are going to think about it as this glorious instant when we laid down the very foundations of their lives, of their society, of their future.

Excuse me, still getting there. A moment that travels.

And in doing so, we can suddenly fold anything.

And when you're a legal sub municipality, you suddenly have politics.

And, all of a sudden, India was this land of opportunity.

Figures provide only a lifeless snapshot of a country.

It's the mystical moment where life regenerates itself, over and over again.

But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.

We have this very rich vocabulary to describe moments of inspiration.

And we sat in silence for that brief moment, and he said to me, You're really talented.

But evolutionarily, two million years is nothing.

Harmony is the suggestion of something that is embracing and universal and of eternity and of the moment.

Once a war breaks out, both sides are in the wrong.