We must learn to experience the event as the appropriating event; and we must first become mature enough for experience. Experience is never the bare sensory perception of objectively present things and facts. Experience is the pain of the departure; it is belongingness to what is not yet past—steadfastness in the inceptuality.
The appropriating event is essentially inceptual; what is not yet past, what goes down into the beginning. The beginning is older than everything established by historiology. The event can never, in the manner of an idea, be established and represented.
Being is not a representation and never a concept, not something thought in distinction to ‘beings’. Being is being, and being is; it is the beings.
— Heidegger, The Event (tr. Rojcewicz)
Notes from a Room 