May
A Time for Contemplation
Once every year the world tells us that it is keeping score by reminding us of a thing called a “birthday”. We take them for granted until, after we’ve had so many, they become meaningless. Then after a few years in this mode, we find ourselves slipping into a mode of deeper contemplation and reflection.
I heard it said once that “time stands still, ‘tis we who pass”. This week the world’s score keeper is telling me that I’ve racked up 85 of those things it calls “years” and that, by its standards, I’m getting older and should experience certain changes in my world.
Well, they’re right. I am experiencing changes. My life is getting better. I’m finding out just what this belief called “time” is all about. I’m finding out it is a non-entity that is next to impossible to define.
My dictionary list 18 variations and interpretations for “time”. It defines itself as a “something” that has no single definition because our individual sense of it is in a state of constant change. Whatever its definition at this moment, it is happening in a constant NOW. We live in the moment. We cannot live in the past. We can remember events and circumstances that may have taken “days”, “months” or “years” that can fly by in a second in our memory. But we cannot relive them. We cannot live in the “future” because it doesn’t exist except as a concept. In our mode of “deeper contemplation”, we realize that our present experience of the moment is the infinity of our being…without any sense of “time”.
“The Search for Life” and “Overcoming Our False Identity” bear particular relevance to this topic. Study these articles and contemplate their logic and reasoning as they relate to the human belief of “time”.
“Cogito ergo sum“. (Rene Descartes) “I think, therefore I am“. I have an identity that is defined as “consciousness”; an awareness. Period! It has nothing to do with a measurement called “time” or a person called “me”. In fact “life”, by Webster’s definition, is a “quality that distinguishes … (my being)…from inanimate matter (the human form)”. This being (the I that I am) is governed by universal “natural laws and principles,” not by human speculation, conjecture or score keeping. Laws and principles do not include any concept of “time”. They are. They exist. They operate in perpetuity and enforce their own irrevocable authority and do so without any sense of past, present or future.
So “Thank You” for your kind wishes for a Happy Birthday. I feel the love and sincerity that motivates the thought and I do appreciate it. I will enthuse over the “celebration” my family may have planned. I will enjoy it NOW and store it in my data bank of memories. And you will understand me when I continue to contemplate experiencing a constant “NOW” and feel the excitement of “the creative and controlling forces of the universe” as they continue manifesting themselves as that which I am… Now!
I must be doing something right because people frequently ask me what I do to look, feel and act so “young”. I tell them it’s no secret. I simply follow the principles outlined in a book called, “The Science of LIVING BETTER FOREVER“.
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