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The Past, Present, and Future are all One
Past, present, and future exist at the same time — and the positivity inherent in that is amazing.
It’s taken me a long time to come to grips with this truth. But time, as we perceive it, is an utter and total illusion.
The late, great, Albert Einstein had some definitive thoughts on this matter.
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
Yes, there is a progression of the passage of time in the right-now, at this moment sense of it. The sun rises and sets. The seasons change. But all other measures of time are a construct of our own devising.
No other animals on the planet have this sort of time perception. Day, night, seasons, that’s about it. Simple, existing.
We can create incredible tools no other animal on this planet can. As such, humans have the power to build reality howsoever we desire for it to be.
If this wasn’t the truth — you wouldn’t be reading these words. The mobile computers we carry with us everywhere we go wouldn’t be here (and weren’t just 30 years ago or so). The service economy in which the majority of us live would not be the dominant model.
