SOME THINGS JUST TAKE TIME
Well, in this realm of the senses, they do. In the world we now exist, the idea of time has been created to mark off the distance between perceived beginning and ending points into more or less equal parts. I’m thinking of the time between sunrise and sunset -- the time between one revolution of the earth and the next, the time between one circuit around our sun and the next.
Time is an idea we have adopted to help us manage living in this plane. And look at the plethora of instruments we’ve invented to keep track of these imaginary markers! Look at our dependence on them, and the authority we give them over our lives! We even pay king's ransoms for certain of these "timepieces", when all they do is mark "time". A cheap watch from your local mall does just as well.
But if we take a few steps back and see our existence in the space of infinity, time becomes irrelevant. In Infinity there is no beginning, and no ending. There are no marker points to measure off from or to.
Time is an appearance; a fiction. Time is useful, up to a point. Until we realise that it doesn’t exist.
Then where are we?
Where we always have been -- in Eternity.
There is a misconception widely abroad that Eternity is waiting some time in the future. Not so. Eternity is -- where it has always been and will always be -- here and now.
All we have is NOW.
How long is a “now” moment? No time at all. Now is eternal; it never ends.
“I” would like to spend more time here/now, in no time at all. Trouble is, “I” starts to think about it and – bang – “I” is out of now.
The good news is that the Not-I never leaves the Now. “That-which-I-truly-am” and “now” are one, and remain so regardless of what else is going on. All we have to do is remember that.
“Oh, my God, what time is it?”
Now.
Well, in this realm of the senses, they do. In the world we now exist, the idea of time has been created to mark off the distance between perceived beginning and ending points into more or less equal parts. I’m thinking of the time between sunrise and sunset -- the time between one revolution of the earth and the next, the time between one circuit around our sun and the next.
Time is an idea we have adopted to help us manage living in this plane. And look at the plethora of instruments we’ve invented to keep track of these imaginary markers! Look at our dependence on them, and the authority we give them over our lives! We even pay king's ransoms for certain of these "timepieces", when all they do is mark "time". A cheap watch from your local mall does just as well.
But if we take a few steps back and see our existence in the space of infinity, time becomes irrelevant. In Infinity there is no beginning, and no ending. There are no marker points to measure off from or to.
Time is an appearance; a fiction. Time is useful, up to a point. Until we realise that it doesn’t exist.
Then where are we?
Where we always have been -- in Eternity.
There is a misconception widely abroad that Eternity is waiting some time in the future. Not so. Eternity is -- where it has always been and will always be -- here and now.
All we have is NOW.
How long is a “now” moment? No time at all. Now is eternal; it never ends.
“I” would like to spend more time here/now, in no time at all. Trouble is, “I” starts to think about it and – bang – “I” is out of now.
The good news is that the Not-I never leaves the Now. “That-which-I-truly-am” and “now” are one, and remain so regardless of what else is going on. All we have to do is remember that.
“Oh, my God, what time is it?”
Now.
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