(From a journal entry c. June 2005)
Time is a line drawn in both directions, encompassing past, present, and future. Eternity is a vast ocean, consisting of an infinite number of individual droplets indistinguishable from the whole when it is viewed as such. We can study each droplet, examining it under a microscope, which magnifies it beyond its original intent. When it is returned to the ocean, who can tell where it went? Who can retrieve it? Identify it? Why then do we place greater importance on some moments in time over others? The eyes of the Divine behold all moments in time as one. All droplets of water as an ocean. The only one who cares about this moment more than another is the one who see it as separate from all others.
For this observer, this moment is a lightly golden sunset upon dusky blue mountains, a band of rippling gold upon the water. For another it may be time to say goodbye, to let go of the bonds that tether us to physical dwellings. Dwellings that separate us from the vast ocean that is our true abode, our eternal existence. We must let go of the grasping mind and the restricting body and lose ourselves in the ocean of life that is God/dess, Tao, Being. That journey begins in this moment in time.
