THE DELUSION OF TIME
Eckhart Tolle’s Takes on time
Time is a very difficult thing to pin down.
When St. Augustine of hippo was asked, “what is time?” he said I know what it is, but when you ask me, I don’t.
Because often, when we think of time, we’d pictured it as a one motion concept which traveled from the past, through the present, and onto the future.
But in actuality, time doesn’t move from the past to the future, so that what happens now should be overlooked entirely.
That’s not how this work.
According to spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle, “the mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master”.
Tolle realized, identifying with your mind is to be trapped in time.
The past gives you an identity, said Tolle, and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form.
Which, of course, both are illusions.
Though many of us aren’t willing to honor and acknowledge the eternal now, instead we’d rather identify with the mind to create an endless preoccupation with the past and future.
The delusion of time, as Tolle explains, is to recognize there was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
