As I sit thinking, each moment passes me by. I’m blessed with many moments. Some are dramatic, productive and creative. Most wither away without me giving them a thought. I don’t think one can add all the moments in one’s life and average them out to see if it is a life well lived. And if I keep asking myself whether in this particular moment I’m living to the fullest, I’ll have a nervous breakdown.
The mind makes decisions and accesses situations. The body is dictated by the biological clock. Even if the mind is sharp, the body deteriorates. To accept each moment of being to be totally whole without the baggage of the past is something I find myself working toward.
“We cannot go back.” My step-brother Richard and I discussed over dinner. “Conditions change and we change with them. You cannot put things on hold. It has to be now or never.”
Image by Jooli.
Yeah! Change is our inescapable condition and Time is its ineluctable category: Time is the tyrant, the measure of the motion of matter through space, and all matter is in motion, which is what makes space.
Does the construct of “time” limit us. It is, after all, a human name to that which we cannot begin to grasp. Time defines our lives because our bodies are finite.
All we have is this exact instant. Right now. The solution to much of our human agony is there – and yet we are all so afraid.
Ah, the mystics plunge in to that space and expand it. We need to keep ourselves grounded but at the same time let the construct of our perception of time limit us.
Hmmm… Something to float about in my mind today as I do the very concrete stuff of being human – with this very human definition of time.
Which Moment Is Greater?
“The certainty of the moment of sunrise, or the unstoppability of the moment of sunset? Which of these is the greater moment to commemorate? Which of these is the greater one to witness? Perhaps neither or either both.
If our moments in between these prove righteous and good and golden, then the latter is chosen. For then we have met our entire obligation to God and Man. If deemed tarnished and tainted and in someway a failure, then the former ranks above. For with the former, we have the assurance that all is not lost.”
~ Pablo Rosales