In nature we find timelessness and time. Seasons come and go but there is an element of timelessness in a beautiful sunset or a grand landscape.
In my life time dominates timelessness. For example, this morning I shut off the alarm clock instead of putting it on snooze and was upset when I work up much latter that I had wanted to. Time was lost in my opinion. This afternoon I took my friend Ann to a doctor’s appointment. The appointment was brief, but going to her apartment, getting her and wheel chair into her van, driving to the clinic, driving back with a few brief stops, in my mind, took too much time. Ann has been in pain for over four years and the more she sees Doctors, has surgeries and treatments the greater her pain gets. Time and healing have no relationship.
Tonight I went to get my cell phone to put on the phone calendar a few things to do tomorrow. I could not find my cell phone and thus my calendar. Hopefully I left it in Ann’s van but will not know till tomorrow. I realized my attachment to my phone to communicate and to manage my time is great.
I always talk about timelessness, being detached, and going deeply into the moment. But in practice I find it hard to do since timelessness is not doing but just being. What phone calls am I missing by not having my cell phone in hand? Do they matter?
Working in the garden, being in silence or mediating, praying seem to be acts of timelessness. Technology, like the cell phone, throws us back to time.
Time or timelessness is not a choice as doing or being is not. In the balance of time and timelessness lives a meaningful life.
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