Post by wren on Oct 1, 2006 12:06:46 GMT -5
Time.
Four little letters that carry so much weight for us.
What time is it, we constantly ask. What time should we leave? What time shall I get up in the morning? What time shall I eat, sleep or play?
Chances are, you wear a watch. It might have bells, lights, whistles and even email but it still keeps the time to the second.
When Daylight-Savings begins or ends, you probably adjust no less than twenty clocks in your life (don’t forget the car dashboard…).
If, for you, time is linear, this moment is unique and will never come again.
This moment is for living a certain way, so that you reach Heaven or other reward in the end.
Because if time is linear, there was a beginning and there will be an end.
Moments can be precious or wasted, never to be seen again. The World can be cherished or exploited, for She will end when you do.
Time goes in one direction. You are a stone in a stream, the water passing over and around you.
If time is linear, you can be early, late or ‘on time’.
If, for you, time is a circle or a spiral, this moment, while it feel may feel unique, has come before and will come again.
This moment is for being connected to the world around you, so that you leave small footprints as you go.
Because if time is a spiral, all you say and do and think and feel will come back again and again.
Moments can be precious or wasted but moments are part of a circle which never ends. The World is a part of you and all you do affects Her, thus affecting yourself and all within Her.
Time goes on and around and you step in and out of the stream as you live your life. In fact, you are both the stream and the stone.
If time is a circle, you simply are.
Time, as kept by clocks, is artificial. Though most clocks are circular and give the illusion of circular time, they, in fact, keep artificial linear time. Someone, not all that long ago, fashioned a clock and started it ticking. That person set in motion our servitude to the seconds, minutes and hours we only perceive to be genuine. Before that, no clocks. There was simply dawn or mid-day, dusk or mid-night. There was Spring with Her rebirth, Summer with Her bounty, Fall with Her harvest and Winter with Her slumbering death. There were full moons or new moons, summer or winter solstices. There was the rhythm of the Earth Mother’s heart and all those who lived by Her pulse.
Try taking off your watch and covering your clocks. Try living your days and nights by the turning of the Earth and the rising of the Sun and Moon. Rise when rested, work when inspired, eat when hungry, play when the mood strikes and stay as long as you feel welcome. Try feeling the spiral passing around and through your soul. Try seeing the effect of every action you do or do not take. Try being conscious of your place.
Time is not on your wrist. Time is in you.
Four little letters that carry so much weight for us.
What time is it, we constantly ask. What time should we leave? What time shall I get up in the morning? What time shall I eat, sleep or play?
Chances are, you wear a watch. It might have bells, lights, whistles and even email but it still keeps the time to the second.
When Daylight-Savings begins or ends, you probably adjust no less than twenty clocks in your life (don’t forget the car dashboard…).
If, for you, time is linear, this moment is unique and will never come again.
This moment is for living a certain way, so that you reach Heaven or other reward in the end.
Because if time is linear, there was a beginning and there will be an end.
Moments can be precious or wasted, never to be seen again. The World can be cherished or exploited, for She will end when you do.
Time goes in one direction. You are a stone in a stream, the water passing over and around you.
If time is linear, you can be early, late or ‘on time’.
If, for you, time is a circle or a spiral, this moment, while it feel may feel unique, has come before and will come again.
This moment is for being connected to the world around you, so that you leave small footprints as you go.
Because if time is a spiral, all you say and do and think and feel will come back again and again.
Moments can be precious or wasted but moments are part of a circle which never ends. The World is a part of you and all you do affects Her, thus affecting yourself and all within Her.
Time goes on and around and you step in and out of the stream as you live your life. In fact, you are both the stream and the stone.
If time is a circle, you simply are.
Time, as kept by clocks, is artificial. Though most clocks are circular and give the illusion of circular time, they, in fact, keep artificial linear time. Someone, not all that long ago, fashioned a clock and started it ticking. That person set in motion our servitude to the seconds, minutes and hours we only perceive to be genuine. Before that, no clocks. There was simply dawn or mid-day, dusk or mid-night. There was Spring with Her rebirth, Summer with Her bounty, Fall with Her harvest and Winter with Her slumbering death. There were full moons or new moons, summer or winter solstices. There was the rhythm of the Earth Mother’s heart and all those who lived by Her pulse.
Try taking off your watch and covering your clocks. Try living your days and nights by the turning of the Earth and the rising of the Sun and Moon. Rise when rested, work when inspired, eat when hungry, play when the mood strikes and stay as long as you feel welcome. Try feeling the spiral passing around and through your soul. Try seeing the effect of every action you do or do not take. Try being conscious of your place.
Time is not on your wrist. Time is in you.