TimePeople say that time is everywhere and nowhere. In our physical world, we are subject to this biological time. Every form of life has a natural rhythm, a cycle: the beating of the heart, the following the seasons, etc. We can try to "catch up with time", or we can find a "pastime" to kill time. With time, we can heal, calm down, be enkindled and become more profound. We have learned to measure time. Time is also movement; the seconds ticking on the clock indicate that time is passing not to come back again. But time is not absolute. Its relative value corresponds to different quantities from one person to the next. For a 4-year-old infant, a year may seem very long because that time represents for him one fourth of his life, one fourth of his measure, which is 4. For a 60-year-old man, a year corresponds to 1/60th of his life. For him, that time seems to be shorter than for the child, because his measure is 60. That is why, the older we get, the more we have the impression that times passes faster. Time exists only in the physical world, in relation to concrete situations or events. It exists because things pass and change. The end of every change will be the end of time. But what is important is to learn how to use our time in order to develop in ourselves true lasting values which, by their own character, are already placed beyond time, those values that are capable to pass this temporary test of matter and time to which we are all subjected. For those who know to act like that, the opposite of time... is eternity. |