The walk in the country can easily be hidden behind the cotton wool for one person, but for Virginia Woolf the experience is very  vivid.                                                                                        Virginia Woolf asserts these moments of being, these flashes of awareness, reveals a pattern hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life, and that we “I mean all human beings”-are connected with this that “the all world is a work of art; that we are parts of work of arts”. But the individual artist is not important in this work. Instead Woolf says of all people “we are the words; we are the work of art; we are the work of art; we are the music; we are the thing itself”. Thas for Woolf a moment of being is a moment when an individual is fully unconscious of his experience, a moment when he is not only aware of himself but catches the glimpse of his connection to a larger pattern hidden behind the opaque surface of daily life.                            

Unlike moments of non-being, when the individual lives and acts without awareness, performing acts as if asleep, the moment of being opens up a hidden reality.                                                                                                             

Moments of being can be found through Virginia Woolf’s fiction. Examine examples for her novels, Mrs Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, Between The Acts. These are often moments of intense power and beauty.                         

Unlike James Joyce’s epiphanies, these moments do not reveal something important for the character. But they provide moments of energy and awareness that allow the character who experiences them to see life more clearly and more fully, if only briefly . and some of the characters tries to share the vision that they glimpse making the work of art that is life.                                                                                                                                              

Mrs Dalloway presents the two characters who are more receptive in all of Virginia Woolf’s fiction: Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith . Clarissa’s experiences are moments of being while in the middle of what appears to be trivial acts, indicating that it is not the action but her awareness that sets a moment of being a part from her other experiences. For example as Clarissa watches taxi-cabs pass by she finds them “absolutely absorbing”. Her thoughts reveal that “what she loved was this, here, now, in front of her, the fat lady in the cab… did it matter that the must inevitably cease completely… or did it not become consoling to believe that somehow in the streets of London, on the abbey and the flow of things, here, there, she survived”. Through the day Clarissa is particularly aware of these threads of connection between herself and her surrounding.                                                                                                                                                                           The moments of being are marked by particularly vivid and powerful language, because they are moments of exact feelings, the language used to convey them much naturally be evocative and precise: the form and content must be perfect symmetrically. In her moments of being Virginia Woolf uses a language that approaches poetry. Clarity is precisely what Virginia Woolf achieves in a moment of being.