To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
In the normal, mind-identified or unenlightened state of consciousness, the power and infinite creative potential that lie concealed in the Now are completely obscured by psychological time.
- Your life then loses its vibrancy, its freshness, its sense of wonder.
- Your life journey is no longer an adventure, just an obsessive need to arrive, to attain, and to “make it.”
- You no longer see or smell the flowers by the wayside either, nor are you aware of the beauty and the miracle of life that unfolds all around you when you are present in the Now.
Psychological time is a serious and dangerous mental illness?
- It is estimated that as many as fifty million people were murdered to further the cause of communism, to bring about a “better world” in Russia, China, and other countries.
- This is a chilling example of how belief in a future heaven creates a present hell.
When every cell of your body is so present that it feels vibrant with life, and when you can feel that life every moment as the joy of Being, then it can be said that you are free of time.
- Ask yourself, “Am I at ease at this moment?”
- Through surrender, you will be free internally of the situation
- Loss of Now is loss of Being
Re-source: Re-present
It is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presence power.
- It generates an energy field in you and around you of a high vibrational frequency.
- No unconsciousness, no negativity, no discord or violence can enter that field and survive, just as darkness cannot survive in the presence of light.
When you enter this timeless dimension of the present, change often comes about in strange way without the need for a great deal of doing on your part.
- Life becomes helpful and cooperative.
- If inner factors such as fear, guilt, or inertia prevented you from taking action, they will dissolve in the light of your conscious presence.
With your unhappy feelings, you are identified with them and keep the process alive through compulsive thinking.
- All that is unconscious. It can only survive in your absence.
- You keep your unhappiness alive by giving it time.
- That is its lifeblood.
- Remove time through intense present-moment awareness and it dies.
- But do you want it to die?
- Have you truly had enough?
- Who would you be without it?
craving and resource from “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle
