Time - hes waiting in the wings
He speaks of senseless things
His script is you and me....Bowie
When we speak of the elimination of time, we are, of course, not
referring to clock time, which is the use of time for practical purposes, such
as making an appointment or planning a trip. It would be almost impossible
to function in this world without clock time. What we are speaking of is the
elimination of psychological time, which is the egoic mind's endless
preoccupation with past and future and its unwillingness to be one with life
by living in alignment with the inevitable isness of the present moment.
Whenever a habitual no to life turns into a yes, whenever you allow
this moment to be as it is, you dissolve time as well as ego. For the ego to
survive, it must make time – past and future – more important than the
present moment. The ego cannot tolerate becoming friendly with the present
moment except briefly just after it got what it wanted. But nothing can
satisfy the ego for long. As long as it runs your life, there are two ways of
being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is
the other.
Whatever is or happens is the form that the Now takes. As long as you
resist it internally, form, that is to say, the world, is an impenetrable barrier
that separates you from who you are beyond form, separates you from the
formless one Life that you are. When you bring an inner yes to the form the
Now takes, that very form becomes a doorway into the formless. The
separation between the world and God dissolves. ECKHART TOLLE
