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Volume 7 Issue 2
Page 6
Page 6
It is a New Year! If your new calendar is anything like mine, it has pages covered
with empty boxes. How will you fill-in those boxes this year? Perhaps your calendar
has beautiful pictures and maybe some positive quotes and affirmations. What’s
their purpose? Do the pictures remind you of places once visited, of travels not taken
or travel goals for this new year? Those quotes and affirmations – what purpose do
they really serve? Are they just nice sayings, simple reminders of what is possible for
others, or do they trigger in you the motivation to move beyond where you have been,
to do what’s been left undone? Do they ignite the heart-fires of a new determination
to be more than you have been?
For some, the calendar is a reminder of appointments, obligations and
commitments. For many, it is a reminder of family members and special friends and
the opportunities that exist as special days in which to reconnect, share and do that
for them that you would like others to do for you. These thought-capsules of time
serve to remind us that there is not enough heart – not enough life – in our living.
Often, we think of calendars, like clocks, as simply marking the passage of time.
It would be an interesting exercise to reflect upon how much of our thinking is
calculated in units of time. I just inventoried my Rx... I have a three day’s supply left of
one and two weeks of another. Valentine’s Day is just a few short weeks away; I
need to remember to... Time-measurements can be slave-masters and we, the
slaves. Is time controlling us, or are we in charge, using time in ways that truly benefit
others and ourselves?
The good news about 2011 is that it is simply one elongated thought of time. It is
a series of ever-changing place markers; the points at which we stand between past
and future. One of my favorite images as a kid was sitting in the barber chair, looking
deep into the endless reflections of things in the opposing mirrors. Looking ahead or
back, endless images...
Another memory is that of going to the movies and watching the “Time Marches
On!” newsreels.
Regardless of what we do and what happens around us, we exist within the
endless flow of time. The brain-mind sciences of today are revealing that we actually
script and then play out our own newsreels. The stories of our times are framed in
self-imposed thoughts, plans, actions and memories. Those sciences also reveal
that what matters most is not “where” we have been; its about what we choose to do
in the ever-present creative moment. “Now” is the time that is of the greatest value
and that which holds the greatest promise. We live, breathe and have our being in an
endless string of now-moment possibilities. Our thoughts, our words and deeds –
what we choose to think about, to say and do – or not say and do. Those are the
things that clearly imprint the passage of time. The curious thing about that is when
we are caught up in thinking, saying and doing, all immediate sense of time is often
forgotten. Such timeless moments are the “stuff” of the heart that cannot be
delineated by the ticking of a clock or captured within the squares on a calendar
page. They are most often best measured by heart-beats; two or more hearts
beating in unison...
2011 has come with an overflowing bag of opportunities and choices. The
choices we make will define this year, moment by moment. My New Year’s wish for
you, my friends, is an endless string of heart-filled moments.
with empty boxes. How will you fill-in those boxes this year? Perhaps your calendar
has beautiful pictures and maybe some positive quotes and affirmations. What’s
their purpose? Do the pictures remind you of places once visited, of travels not taken
or travel goals for this new year? Those quotes and affirmations – what purpose do
they really serve? Are they just nice sayings, simple reminders of what is possible for
others, or do they trigger in you the motivation to move beyond where you have been,
to do what’s been left undone? Do they ignite the heart-fires of a new determination
to be more than you have been?
For some, the calendar is a reminder of appointments, obligations and
commitments. For many, it is a reminder of family members and special friends and
the opportunities that exist as special days in which to reconnect, share and do that
for them that you would like others to do for you. These thought-capsules of time
serve to remind us that there is not enough heart – not enough life – in our living.
Often, we think of calendars, like clocks, as simply marking the passage of time.
It would be an interesting exercise to reflect upon how much of our thinking is
calculated in units of time. I just inventoried my Rx... I have a three day’s supply left of
one and two weeks of another. Valentine’s Day is just a few short weeks away; I
need to remember to... Time-measurements can be slave-masters and we, the
slaves. Is time controlling us, or are we in charge, using time in ways that truly benefit
others and ourselves?
The good news about 2011 is that it is simply one elongated thought of time. It is
a series of ever-changing place markers; the points at which we stand between past
and future. One of my favorite images as a kid was sitting in the barber chair, looking
deep into the endless reflections of things in the opposing mirrors. Looking ahead or
back, endless images...
Another memory is that of going to the movies and watching the “Time Marches
On!” newsreels.
Regardless of what we do and what happens around us, we exist within the
endless flow of time. The brain-mind sciences of today are revealing that we actually
script and then play out our own newsreels. The stories of our times are framed in
self-imposed thoughts, plans, actions and memories. Those sciences also reveal
that what matters most is not “where” we have been; its about what we choose to do
in the ever-present creative moment. “Now” is the time that is of the greatest value
and that which holds the greatest promise. We live, breathe and have our being in an
endless string of now-moment possibilities. Our thoughts, our words and deeds –
what we choose to think about, to say and do – or not say and do. Those are the
things that clearly imprint the passage of time. The curious thing about that is when
we are caught up in thinking, saying and doing, all immediate sense of time is often
forgotten. Such timeless moments are the “stuff” of the heart that cannot be
delineated by the ticking of a clock or captured within the squares on a calendar
page. They are most often best measured by heart-beats; two or more hearts
beating in unison...
2011 has come with an overflowing bag of opportunities and choices. The
choices we make will define this year, moment by moment. My New Year’s wish for
you, my friends, is an endless string of heart-filled moments.
| Time Capsules By Jimminy Cricket |