The Concept of Time
The Illusion, the Shape and the Rhythm of Time in 6 Inspiring Quotes
When the compulsive striving away from the Now ceases, the joy of Being flows into everything you do. The moment your attention turns to the Now, you feel a presence, a stillness, a peace. You no longer depend on the future for fulfillment and satisfaction — you don’t look to it for salvation. Therefore, you are not attached to the results. Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being. You have found the life underneath your life situation.
In the absence of psychological time, your sense of self is derived from Being, not from your personal past. Therefore, the psychological need to become anything other than who you are already is no longer there. In the world, the level of your life situation, you may indeed become wealthy, knowledgeable, successful, free of this or that, but in the deeper dimension of Being you are complete and whole now.Eckhart Tolle — The Power of Now
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“In the traditional Mayan culture the computation of time was not determined by simple commercial or civil requirements. There was a much loftier goal: to synchronize the lives of human beings and societies to the great cosmic pulsation, to the rhythm of the seasons, and to the other cycles that dictate changes on Earth. Thus by following this rhythm of the universe — the beats of the sky’s heart, as the Mayan Popol Vuh describes it — whether through lunar, solar, planetary, stellar, or galactic biorhythms, human beings could avoid all manner of decadence. They could keep themselves in harmony with the universal constant and expand their individual beings far beyond those paltry syllogistic reasonings that fail to achieve a profound observation of certain simple but vital facts.
This cosmic measuring, and its corresponding human synchronization, required an identification of the individual, society, nature, and cosmos — a true and complete yok’ hah Maya, Mayan yoga — . It was a synthetic science, schematized in that invaluable indigenous archeometer: the Mayan astronomical calendars. Here was the key for curing all illnesses and for regenerating the human species, living according to the rules of life, those golden rules that humans did not invent, but rather discovered.”
Sat Arhat Domingo Dias Porta, a Mayan elder
in “The 8 Calendars of the Maya: The Pleiadian Cycle and the Key to Destiny” by Hunbatz Men.
“Time is related to you as numbers. We offer to you that number and time have no depth. These are merely programmed into the current mind as safeguards, to keep you in time and space. They are a function not really of mind, but of brain. And they are really a dysfunction of brain, to keep you tied to the physical dimensions of the three dimensional world.
The relativities you call “number”, “time” and “space” are a function of the brain related only to the third dimension. This current mind keeps you a prisoner in time and space, in the material, physical world you call reality. But the delusion of time must remain for a period. Do you understand?”
Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull
in “The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls — Unlocking the Secrets of the Past, Present and Future” by Chris Morton and Ceri Louise Thomas
“The final result was a joint paper by Penrose and myself in 1970, which at last proved that there must have been a big bang singularity provided only that general relativity is correct and the universe contains as much matter as we observe. There was a lot of opposition to our work, partly from the Russians because of their Marxist belief in scientific determinism, and partly from people who felt that the whole idea of singularities was repugnant and spoiled the beauty of Einstein’s theory. However, one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem. So in the end our work became generally accepted and nowadays nearly everyone assumes that the universe started with a big bang singularity.
It is perhaps ironic that, having changed my mind, I am now trying to convince other physicists that there was in fact no singularity at the beginning of the universe-as we shall see later, it can disappear once quantum effects are taken into account.”Stephen Hawking — A Brief History of Time
“Warriors face the oncoming time. Normally we face time as it recedes from us. Only warriors can change that and face time as it advances on them.
Warriors have only one thing in mind: their freedom. To die and be eaten by the Eagle is no challenge. On the other hand, to sneak around the Eagle and be free is the ultimate audacity.
When warriors talk about time, they are not referring to something which is measured by the movement of a clock. Time is the essence of attention. The Eagle’s emanations are made out of time, and properly speaking, when a warrior enters into other aspects of the self, he is becoming acquainted with time.”
Carlos Castaneda
“You are in what I would call a transitional state. You can’t be in the loop of time. If you’re in the loop of time, you would then continue to repeat. You would just start all over again. You’d loop around. What is a loop? Is it a circle? Let’s not get off on that. If you were in the loop of time, you would repeat, so there is a transitional place set up for you so that you don’t go around and around. There is only a need to learn everything that you chose to learn at least once, and with all of the beings and all of the souls who were created during this loop of time, everything you needed to learn in every single way that it needed to be learned has been learned. There is no need to go and do it again. You learned it all, so what’s the point? Now you’re in a transitional place, which is … how can we say, for the sake of your visual cognizance? You are in a transitional place that does not put you back into your natural stream of existence but is between your natural stream of existence and the loop as you know it.”
Time Professor
in “Time and the Transition to Natural Time” through Robert Shapiro
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