The Sacredness of Time
In this enlightening video (summarized below), psychiatrist Phil Stutz and Tools coach Jamie Rose consider our modern relationship with time. Phil explains the war between the mechanical and spiritual views of time and shares three ways in which we can honor the sacredness of time and ultimately cocreate with forces greater than ourselves.
The world has two warring points of view when it comes to time. There is a mechanical view of human beings where nothing is sacred and we believe we can control everything. On the other hand, a spiritual view acknowledges a higher force that cocreates with us in all that we do. The mechanical view often dominates modern culture, while the spiritual has been around for millennia.
SUBMISSION, COMMITMENT & PATIENCE
There are three ways in which we can honor the sacredness of time:
Submission has to do with ego. The ego wants what it wants when it wants it. You have to submit to not getting what you want so you can learn to stay focused. It takes discipline not to be distracted. Discipline is the correct relationship to time.
Commitment is a very specific state of mind or functioning in which you make a promise to yourself and then you keep that promise. When you keep the promise, you are connecting the time when you made the commitment to the time when you keep the commitment. If you keep living like this, then all the days connect to each other and you are functioning in a continuum. That’s the “plane of will” that you create, and among its many benefits is that you become more creative.
Patience. There isn’t enough patience in our culture. In the ancient world they knew that nothing was created without the help of some other force because they were living off the land and saw they were subject to the seasons. They had to be patient.
The modern person has the conceit that they can create everything themselves without a relationship to higher forces, but we can’t. Seeing time as sacred will give you the ability to cocreate with forces that are bigger than you are.
