“Time is not a spatial distance one must traverse,” I said to one inquirer who was stressed out about not having enough time to do things. “Time is a state of mortal mind that dissolves with an understanding of eternal Life.”

To illustrate:

Have you ever had a boring job?

How fast did time pass while you were on the clock? I’d guess about as fast as a creeping glacier, from my past experience with monotonous tasks.

Now, to the contrary, have you ever had a job you really liked?

How fast did time pass then? You probably forgot about time for the joy of being happily occupied.

What was the difference between the boring job and the interesting work in terms of passing time? It wasn’t the number of minutes counted, but the state of mind during those ticks that made time feel like an onerous burden in one case, and non-existent in the other.

One of the lessons we gain from this illustration is a glimpse that time is not space in life, but a limited constricted view of life.

The more material our concept of life, the more a burden time appears to be. The more our understanding of life is spiritually inspired, the less time is a factor.

The life God created for us is eternal, without beginnings and ends, but involves one continuous flow of joy and love.

Life is more than 8 hours of sleep, 3 meals a day, commutes to work, and bills to pay. Life is more than blood rushing through the body, a body rushing through a day, and a person rushing through a schedule. Life is spiritual. It is love, peace, harmony, compassion, generosity in action. These are qualities of Spirit, and they are eternal. To express them is not a strain or stress, it’s a joy. The more our daily commitments are filled with activities of the Spirit, the more timeless our work feels.

“Life is without beginning and without end. Eternity, not time, expresses the thought of Life, and time is no part of eternity.”

~ Mary Baker Eddy

Time disappears in eternity. The more our thinking is spiritually occupied, the closer to eternity we feel. We are governed by God rather than by a clock.

Life is not X number of hours passed, but God’s qualities of love expressed.

“Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity. Eternity can be the tick of a clock.”

~ Mary Parrish

Living by the clock is like owning a huge mansion, but residing in one small dark room in the corner of the building, and never leaving that spot. Our whole world becomes that itsy-bitsy space, to the exclusion of all the adventures we could have in the other rooms if we were to venture out and explore.

Don’t get mentally stuck in the prison cell of time. You have an eternal Life to live and discover. It’s in Spirit, and is expressed in Love.

The more we think true to our spiritual life, the less time is considered, and becomes as nothing, even to the point of realization that John saw in his heavenly revelation from God that “there should be time no longer.”

Come out of the circle of time.
And into the circle of love.

~ Rumi

Have a spiritual day today. It’s the stress-free way.