Striving for the concept of Recollection

Immediacy and reflection in such a way that is conducive to inwardness:

Imagine the state of simeone when they have just lost a loved one.  They have experienced their death, but it is not necessarily (and I say this as one who has not lost someone greatly personal to them, such that it is only in reflection, or rather, by reflection, that I have grieved) by having experienced the death, whatever the sort was, that the have grieved deeply inwardly.  It is only in the state of reflection of the past experiencing, in the “musings of the day”, that one gains the state of actual grief.  But in this state they are not experiencing something present; they are experiencing something in recollection.  It is this sort of experience that is conducieve to inwardness––indeed, that is inwardness. 

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