WONDERS of being in TIME & SPACE
Gifts Sour & Sweet
TIME & SPACE allow us to move through the folly of youth and the wisdom of aging. We can experience presence or dissociation, appreciation and stinginess. We can refuse to budge or flow with acceptance of what is. Taking responsibility for ourselves is often misunderstood and avoided through mechanisms of blame, denial, projection, distraction, addiction, and more. Only in the present moment can one truly experience the totality of BEING HUMAN.
TIME & SPACE mean everything is impermanent. This is terrifying at times and a relief in the end. We suffer when we grasp tightly to what will change. We suffer less when we let compassion flow with the constant changes.
Self-Inquiries
Name a time that the world has felt too fast or too slow.
Can you think of ways that you and the earth are in a reciprocal relationship?
Birth and death happen everyday everywhere. What does this say living in time and space?
If Ego Consciousness includes the BODY, MIND, HEART, the SOCIAL SELF with MEMORY and FREE WILL existing in TIME & SPACE… Can Ego Consciousness completely define who I am? Can my body or my heart account for the inner richness of a sunset? Can my mind or my memory create the magic when an infant grasps my little finger? Can the magical moments of holding the hand of a dying loved one be testimony that there is more than just ego? Finley calls these moments of spontaneous spiritual experience, AXIAL MOMENTS.
EXERCISE: Timeline - write pivotal, defining moments, cultural influences, belief systems, roles played, illnesses or surgeries, giant purchases or job changes, baptisms or graduations… Times in you life that molded you to be who you are. Do this in order to be more conscious of the gift of life. See everyone with their own timelines above them and show mercy to all.
