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I realize this is rather broad, but I would love for you to share your thoughts on the concept of "time."

For me, too much revolves around the hands on the clock. Time can be overly controlling of our lives to the point of causing anxiety and worry. If there were no such thing as time at all, we would sleep when we were tired, eat when we were actually hungry, dance and paint when we felt like it and work when there was actually really work to be done. Just my two cents on the matter of time

To me, our modern culture has regulated time as a straight line moving only forward. I have to work with this living in society, but I'm frustrated the cycle (circular) aspect of time is completely ignored. Everyone using the phrase "what goes around, comes around" but few understand how accurate that is despite everyday examples.

I love Tolle's approach to time in A New Earth. While he didn't coin it by any means he points out a crucial aspect of culture and time. In our culture we tend to see time as past, present, future with almost no emphasis on the present. The present, however is all we have. We have now and nothing else, yet we spend so much of the present focused on the past and future and get all stressed about it. He points to "clock time" as something entirely different because it informs us in a universal way when to make appointments, etc.

Shay