| Time, the Spirit and a Cup of Tea |
| Written by Allin | |
| Friday, 14 March 2008 | |
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One thought regarding the subject of time that I came across back some years ago, spoke of it as being a constant foe by those who struggled against its effects in their little bit of life and the world. The sort of foe that regardless of the effect or the cause, in some minds carries the results that many would argue would be some futile end to anyone's efforts, even if those efforts would be in the most noble of causes. Time however, can also be seen as a friend. The sort of friend that always remains by ones side and in ones life and stands as reliable and true to the mark of change and growth as a good and loyal dog does for their family. A friend who always greets with a wagging tail and a smiling visage hoping for nothing more than to be a part of ones life as one greets their days and welcomes their nights. It would seem that as long as there stood anyone with the insight to grasp the effects of time in the lives of people and the world, there also stood those who could eventually perceive that time in and by itself wasn't exactly the standing point of a constant, but rather the flexible courtesy of hindsight given to someone for the purpose of perspective. Rather like the Doppler Effect might have on a speed gun on a highway. Its one thing to have time coming towards one in ones life. Things tend to seem rather slow and ineffectual when one is standing at the wait for something, someone or some event to take place. The egg brought to a boil, the movie that comes on at nine, the class examination that is due in the next hour, the bus or train that regardless of all the intentional distractions doesn't seem to ever be come quickly enough. So often everything does seem to be indelibly intertwined with this hypothetical construct we call time. In the things of life, everything, yes everything does seem to be tied to it in some form or another. The greatest Physicists connect its complexities to the creations of the Universe and the effects of the planets and the stars on living bodies. Some Spiritualists relate its relationship to the energy centers of the body and in relation to the function and purpose of the soul while others believe in the independent nature of the spirit and its separation from the here and now of time, placing the core of the self apart from the limitations of a clock, a wave or a blink. Theologians make consistent reference to it whenever a discussion is engaged on some more of histories mysteries and the prose of books and those things hidden beneath the sands of the past. How much everyone and everything does seem to be chained to this thing called time. Or are they? Consider this thought for one moment: "Clock slays time, time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life." - William Faulkner Rather recent thinkers in today's age of paradigm expansion have taken a leap of thought that time might not quite be the thing that it was ever perceived to be. The possibility comes forward that time in and by itself is in fact the construct that more abstract thinkers may have always said it was. Even science itself in today's age of space and Earth have stated that the relative nature of time can be witnessed as anything but a constant, but rather an observed property of differentials. Some have stated that time is simply a perspective, a perception relative to space and the movement through that space and such a perspective adds to that which makes physical existence itself possible. Without the possibility of such perspective, the notice of existence itself would change and shift to a more accurate domain in the minds of some to reflect the more spiritual, the more energy centered nature of life. Here is where much of the focus tends to be in recent or more common days as greater focus is brought into some minds where the issue of spiritual change is concerned. All too often, things of the spiritual as with the issue of time tend to be cloaked in vague and abstract terms that pleasingly wet the appetite of thinkers who live more often out of the box than in one. It opens the realms of the possible, leaving behind the more familiar, or probable. The latter tends to be comfortably predictable, which is always a safe place to live if one desires such a box of existence. If time would be considered as that flexible and fount of friendship that it seems to be, perhaps less misery would be placed into its wake, and more into the hands of those who walk along with it through this experience of life. So often it's a common thing to hear someone say how, if they could go back and do it all over again, things would be so different the second time around. Many would pleasingly shift and change their lanes on the highway of life and alter the exits they have taken, landing them into another chapter of their lives entirely, into another place and into another circumstance of events. What if the individual matters of life were to be seen as singular sentences on the page of an entire life's Theater? The happenings and events of a journey of the spirit, all leading someone from where they started, to some point they always intended to meet in their charted plans for life? No lessons to learn, no karmic retribution in payment for what someone might have done in the past, no trial or test of ones spiritual character but a journey that one chooses to experience. One way I can recall it being described that I used to fancy was to place the matters of life in that as a tapestry. Were one to go back and undo certain threads from that tapestry, the entire fabric of the artwork would be changed irreparably leaving behind a completely different color, a completely shifted pattern and a completely varied soul's experience. Time in its relative guises, may in fact be a tool simply devised as a means of being, of experiencing and of feeling. The things that make life just what it is and what it's meant to be. As exhibited in the following fine thought: "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." Henry Van Dyke Now, I believe its "time" for tea.. © 2008 Peace> Allin> Tags: Time energy soul space spirit spirits                 |
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