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And so, you ask, how does this come to pass? How can this be? We are each found in a segment we call time, at any given moment, breathing and living and loving and quarreling and dying in these moments we call time. They “exist” in the nature of our ego minds as we now carry them with us on this journey. But the journey neither starts nor ends. The mind stands above all―the Self mind, which you have made. But the ego mind stands in between time and eternity. It points to one over the other. It perceives one, and distorts the other. In its perceptions are therefore more distortions at work.

And therefore I have not yet answered these questions concerning the nature of time, and I will call forth another way for explaining to those inquiring. It is this: lay before you what you call time. Watch it go past. Recall what time has borne, what time has accomplished, what time has done. Recall all that has befallen you in this element we call time. Watch it pass some more. Then come back to me and tell me what you have learned in time. And you will say, I have learned and experienced much on some days, and not so much on the others. And I will say, you are better for it; this is your purpose you have allotted yourselves in time, that you would walk the face of the earth with gratitude, with solitude, and in these moments, find that God is.