all possibilities of time

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Like a confluence of great rivers, our lives are a series of different moments, joining together to give the impression of one continuous flow. We move from cause and effect, event to event, one point to another - which gives an outward impression that our lives are one continuous, unified movement. 

In reality, they are not.

Each moment is born and dies. And in a very real way we are born and die with it. Creation and destruction are two sides of the same coin.


Frank Ostaseski
The Five Invitations

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And an astronomer said, Master, what of Time? And he answered: You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable.

You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.

Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.

Yet the timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness,

And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.

—Kahlil Gibran

On Time

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