Have you ever stopped and considered what this thing we call time is and what role it plays in your life? Well I have and the results of that contemplation have changed my life. You see, the more I contemplate time the more I realize that it doesn’t exist in and of itself. It is man made or rather mind made. As I sit here writing this the clock on my computer reads 10:38pm but that is just the play of light and patterns on a computer screen, a collection of numbers for my mind to interpret in some way. Is time just the read-out on a clock? No matter what time the clock says I always look at it now. We normally think of time in terms of its measurements; years, months, days, weeks, hours and minutes. These however are just labels some of which roughly relate to natural phenomena such as a revolution of the earth on its axis or one of its orbits around the sun but nature delineates no such measurements. Day does not stop and become night, day flows into night and night flows into day. Our minds create the boundaries.
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