I am held by something older than time
– a social media friend of mine in one of her posts
That’s my experience too.
WHAT’S OLDER THAN TIME?
I am held by something older than time in the sense that it’s more primary, more fundamental, and goes before time. It’s what any sense of time happens within and as. It’s what any sense of space happens within and as.
And that something is my nature. When I look, I find I am what any and all content of experience happens within and as. It’s what time happens within and as.
To me, it’s what time happens within and as.
It’s not something far away or for special people. It’s not something particularly mysterious in a conventional sense. It’s what I am already most familiar with. It’s what takes the form of any and all experience, including time.
My nature is older than time. It’s what metaphorically goes before time. It’s what time happens within and as. It’s the timeless taking the form of time.
HOW DOES IT HOLD ME?
This is what holds any and all experience. It’s what holds any experience of this human self. It’s what holds itself.
My nature holds itself and any and all experience, including of this human self and anything associated with it.
A SENSE OF IT VS NOTICING VS FINDING OURSELVES AS IT
We can have an intuitive sense of this. We can sense there is something here that seems older than time. That’s often what’s expressed in poetry and by some mystics.
We can notice and find it more directly. We can notice our nature as capacity for any and all experience, including time and space. And we can explore how to live from this, and invite the different parts of us – formed within and still operating from separation consciousness – to join in with this noticing and living from it.
And we can, also through grace, viscerally and undeniably find ourselves as that which any and all experience happens within and as, including time and space. And live from and as it, and invite the different parts of us to join in with this.
INITIAL DRAFT
Yes, that’s my experience too.
I am held by something older than time in the sense that it’s more primary, more fundamental, and goes before time. It’s what any sense of time happens within and as. It’s what any sense of space happens within and as.
And that something is my nature. When I look, I find I am what any and all content of experience happens within and as. It’s what time happens within and as.
To me, it’s what time happens within and as.
It’s not something far away or for special people. It’s not something particularly mysterious in a conventional sense. It’s what I am already most familiar with. It’s what takes the form of any and all experience, including time.
My nature is older than time. It’s what metaphorically goes before time. It’s what time happens within and as. It’s the timeless taking the form of time.
It’s what holds any and all experience. It’s what holds any experience of this human self. It’s what holds itself.