“Change is the only constant in life.”
Heraclitus
When speaking of a deceased friend Einstein stated,
“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
In other words, there is no such thing as linear time. According to quantum physics writer Julian Barbour, the concept of time must be turned on its head. Instead of conceiving of time as a measure of change, he opines that it is change that gives the illusion of time.
We have been taught to think of events in our lives as pages of a book torn from their binding and spread randomly across the floor. The pages can be pieced together and ordered in such a way as to create a cohesive story. However, the pages are still independent of one another. Barbour concludes that time is actually an infinite number of nows overlapping in such a way that they give the impression of linear time flowing past us, but that the linking of the nows is done in the mind only.
In other words, everything in the universe is existing simultaneously and, in the words of Barbour, the cat that jumps is not the same cat that lands.
This ideology gives new meaning to the importance of the phrase be here now. Now is all there is. Thoughts of running out of time or of life being too short are stories in our heads that we can choose to stop writing.
Let go of the story and surrender to the now. In turn, you will access the unlimited potential of the unmanifested. This is the practice of accessing source energy. And it is where you will find your bliss.
Quiet the mind, and be here now… Indeed, that is all there is!