Do You Have the Time?

“Time is the reef upon which all our frail mystic ships are wrecked. ~ Sir Noel Coward, Blithe Spirit

With the time change in Daylight Savings coming this weekend, I have been thinking about how much of our lives are spent trying to manage and often manipulate something that doesn’t really exist. We invented time by placing numbers on a calendar and then placing them on the face of a manmade device called a clock which then aids us in maintaining our lives in a linear fashion based on the three “tenses”; past, present, and future. The universe knows nothing about time--it is we who created and live our lives around time, which, no pun intended, makes us “tense” much of the time.

The past and the future don’t exist because it is always Now. Think about it! Take a moment and consider where you “think” you were on a specific day in time ten or twenty years ago. Notice that as you conjure up that memory it is happening in your mind Now. Even back then, it was Now. The same goes for what you may consider your future--when you arrive there it will also be Now.

While Daylight Savings time may allow us to better maximize the daylight hours, be it for work or play, regardless of the position of the sun and earth, it doesn’t add anything to Now. It is a classic example of how we allow the clock to instantly cast us, sixty manmade-minutes, into the future or the past, magically adding or deducting something to or from our lives that really exist--time. In short, the moment we look at the clock it pulls us out of the present moment, which is where life is always waiting for us to be available for that mystical experience we all came here to have; to know our oneness with the All that is. Thus the saying, “Be here now.

Time really is the reef upon which our mystic sailing ship gets caught. So, as you adjust the clocks in your home, car, office, or your watch this Saturday, try to become the silent witness of how--no matter how you may be able to manipulate the settings on a clock it doesn’t change time--it only changes your perception of a changeless reality. Enjoy this present moment because, irrespective of what the numbers on your clock may say, Now is all you will ever have--make every holy instant of it count.

Peace, Dennis

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