A Different Take on Time

You didn’t pass through the year. The year passed through you.

How is that for a thought?

You are situated in the NOW — the ever-constant moment. Like a conveyor belt, everything flows through you: events, thoughts, perceptions. The mind’s layering of these is what we perceive as time. It feels real enough. But feeling real and being what it appears to be are two different things.

Our over-identification with the world of senses makes it difficult to grasp this. We assume we are moving through time when in fact time — or what we call time — is moving through us.

This is not just philosophy. It speaks directly to the question of what we actually are. If you are not the events that pass through you, not the thoughts that arise and dissolve, not the perceptions that colour and fade — then what remains? What is the one who observes all of this?

Consider how Scripture attempts to describe God’s relationship with time:

“I am the Alpha and the Omega — the One Who is and Who was and Who is coming, the Almighty.”

Revelation 1:8

How can one be at the beginning and end simultaneously? By being constantly in the NOW, whilst everything else flows through on the cosmic conveyor belt we call Life.

What is your take on time?