What if Time stood still? That was a childhood fantasy of mine. Imagine, I thought, being able to stop time; create things as I desired, influence how something would happen, have a dramatic effect on the the environment around me. I smile just thinking about this.
But, isn’t that what we do anyway? Maybe it is more subtle, but we don’t need to be in the position of the awareness of time stopping to influence ourselves and our environment.
I often wonder if time exists at all. It seems a rather artificial construct. What if instead of linear time, all that is and ever was is happening now all around us? What if this time as we know it is just our way of narrowing our focus? Something to think about huh?
Here’s a question for you. Does time exists at all?
A synchronicity footnote to this post: Just as I was uploading this blog post, I clicked on my iTunes shuffle button and the lyrics I heard were “Hands of time start to unwind…” from the song, Closer to You, by Thalia. Interesting that of hundreds of song possibilities, this one with lyrics about time pops on first.
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October 29, 2010 at 8:22 pm
dukebag
I think it was Tao of Wu I was reading or something similar. Talking about how reality moves in a cyclical fashion (“all things shall come to pass”). This makes sense if you consider all of the celestial bodies out there or that a sphere would be the most convenient compaction of matter (where the sphere lends itself better non-linear descriptions).
Elsewhere, I’ve picked up the metaphor that we are all on a giant river. The river is constantly moving and we can flow with it or resist it. Regardless, we still flow with it. Similar too is martial art of Akido, you’re just channeling what is around you.
from bruce lee:
“a good martial artist does not become tense but ready
not thinking but yet, not dreaming”
That’s what I think of when it comes to stilling time