Our vague awareness that time is limited creates a special tension in us. Therefore we strain against time like a dog pulls on a leash.
Pearls
6 Unwinding humanity’s relationship with time
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Our vague awareness that time is limited creates a special tension in us. Therefore we strain against time like a dog pulls on a leash.
Our vague awareness that time is limited creates a special tension in us. Therefore we strain against time like a dog pulls on a leash.

Imagine we live in a great big house that has one room we don’t use, so it becomes a room for storage. We push a few things into it helter-skelter and if we had to tidy it up at that point, it wouldn’t take too long. Imagine over time we let things pile up until that room’s filled to the brim. We’re lazy and don’t want to hassle with sorting things and putting them away as we go. Now we’ve got a tougher job on our hands. It’s just like this with the time we have at our disposal…

If we have a problem area and at the first sign of feeling troubled we heed it saying, “Why am I just a little disturbed?”—rather than packing it away into the storeroom of our unawareness—we will be able to sort out what it’s about in jig time…But if instead we let it ride, pushing it out of our mind, it will fester underground. Now it starts to create negative patterns and vicious circles that seem to trap us in wicked chain reactions that eat our lunch…

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