This text analyzes the relationship between the totality of living beings and their inherently temporal character. The author argues that life and all events must be understood as processual and oriented happenings that are not static facts but continuous becomings (fientia). This orientation occurs within the world as a specifically structured environment. For an adequate understanding of reality, it is essential to consider the context; however, no living being can be derived solely from the whole or reduced to it. A living being establishes itself through active self-definition and by gaining a distance from its surroundings, which allows it to relate back to them. Although a being is existentially dependent on its environment, it is by no means a mere product of it. A key element of integrity is the internal tradition, which interacts with the environment but remains irreducible and underivable from it. Totality is thus conceived as a dynamic tension between external context and internal autonomy unfolding through time.