Excerpted from David Whyte's book, "Crossing the Unknown Sea."
SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: What does viewing time as we view seasons mean to you? Can you share a personal story when you felt the eternal had broken into time? What practice helps you escape the prison of time and grant the hours their own life?
Time?
i was always punctual & then after brain surgery I seemed to forget time & it's so called importance.now living with a GBM grade 3 I am continually late or am I?
Thank you for this beautiful sharing. Helps me to make friends with time. I feel this is one of the vital ingredients for peace. I had never thought about time like this before. I had been wishing to be more present - but of course present moment is a slice of time. Something seems to be clicking into place deep inside me through your sharing.
Time is also the Age. Every age is a different season in itself. Child- Youth- Adult- Old age. Each stage in the life has its own flavors - happy appointments - sad disappointments but the life force(soul) remaining the same in each time. The point of time during this journey when one understands this truth,is the time(age) of reckoning- revelation. Different for different persons.Fortunate/Divine are those to have this as early as possible. Then one can strive to be timeless/agenda less. Follow Kabir who said"Lere Nam Lere Nam,Nam Se tire Re Bhai. Minakh Janam Fir Na Mile". " Yugan Yugan Hum Yogi, Awadhoota(wanderer)". "Apni Madhi Me,Khelu Sahaj Swa-ichha". "Hum Hi Sidha Samadhi Hum hai".
I struggled to grasp this Reading and had to read several times. But as walked away from the recording studio, I found myself asking, "what is the personality of this hour, this moment? How can I be in it, contribute to it, change it for the better, for someone else's life?" I will go and do that now. With love. Liz