From the perspective of evolution, time is all we’ve got. Evolution only happens in and through time, so we can only affect change in the cosmos in and through time. Therefore, if we care about making a difference, we need to have the courage to look directly at our own lives in relationship to time.
Why? Because time runs out! And too many of us are still putting off what is most important, postponing and hesitating, because we feel that we’re not quite ready yet. We’re not quite ready to live a life that bold, that intentional, that immediate. But time keeps passing.
So to me, one of the most important steps in an individual’s spiritual evolution is when they embrace what I call an absolute relationship to time. That means they are no longer waiting for anything. They are seeing the whole process of their own life-experience with a sense of great urgency and immediacy because there is so much that they need to accomplish and they need to do it now.
If we are to truly make a difference in the short time we each have on this earth, more and more of us need to awaken to this Great Intention, this great urgency, and this great will to evolve. That alone is what makes this life meaningful.
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people, you're going to die - what are you waiting for?
- Lodro Zangpo, Gampo Abbey 1993
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