Time is an illusion.

Time is an illusion.

Not that it is unreal. But that it is not what it appears to be.

Time is how we perceive reality — in sequential, linear events. One thing after another. Past behind us, future ahead. The mind translates experience into this shape, and we take the shape for granted, as if it were the thing itself.

But what the mind perceives as sequential and linear — stretching from past into future — has actually all happened in what might be called the Holy Instant Now. In God, we live, move and have our being. In God, there is no time. Eternity does not mean a very long time. It means timeless.

Your truth — your deepest reality — proceeds from and dwells in the timeless One. The One who was, and is, and is to come — all at once, in this moment.

So why time? What is the point of the illusion?

Time is a learning tool. An awakening device. The sequential unfolding of events is the classroom in which the soul discovers what it already, essentially, is. Once its purpose has been accomplished, it can be dispensed with.

You are not running out of time. You are learning through it.