This is all there is. What you are aware of around you is all there is. Our life is this unfolding present. It is absolute and it is here and now. It isn't - nor was it ever - some other place or time.
Now is timeless. Time can be used to measure the past and the future but never the present. "What time is it now?" has only one answer: "It is now."
Mystics in each of the spiritual traditions point to this principle - it seems fair to call it an inescapable truth. In Zen Buddhism we have the great question, "If not now, when?" Meister Eckhart, the Christian mystic, explained a problem "Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time." And in Sufism we find "Past and future veil God from our sight." (Rumi)
Now is timeless. Time can be used to measure the past and the future but never the present. "What time is it now?" has only one answer: "It is now."
Mystics in each of the spiritual traditions point to this principle - it seems fair to call it an inescapable truth. In Zen Buddhism we have the great question, "If not now, when?" Meister Eckhart, the Christian mystic, explained a problem "Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time." And in Sufism we find "Past and future veil God from our sight." (Rumi)
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