Time or Timelessness

It's strange how we experience time. Time can seem like it is rushing along, pushing us to do more or making us feel that there is not enough time. Sometimes we feel like there's all the time we need. Other times, we feel there is no time, we're in the flow of whatever we're doing and time either doesn't exist, or it seems to stand still.

Notice how many times I've used the word "time" in the last paragraph. Notice the ways the word can be used. It seems pretty important for something that may or may not exist. Time is used to denote the linear progression of past, present and future. Even Einstein called time a stubbornly persistant illusion. The Greek had two words denoting time. Chronos is numeric or chronological time. The other word is Kairos, which lierally means "the right or opportune moment". This discribes metaphysical or devine time. This is the time we experience during meditation or during some intense, in the flow experience. Sometimes we have a sense of timelessness that gives us a glimpse into spiritual infinity, if we're very lucky. Metaphysician, Thomas Troward wrote, "The whole of the Spirit must be present at every point in space at the same moment."

Many indigenous people seem to have an ability to live in the present moment, not be tied down to the tyrant of time passing, as we "civilised"people are. Some of them don't even have words in their language to discribe time as we do. We should all strive to live each moment, just as it is. The past is gone and cannot be changed, only learned from. The future has not arrived yet and depends upon the present for it's outcome. We need to learn to act as if "now" is all there is, because it's true.