Do you need time?

Do You Need Time?
For what?

The one on their deathbed, who looks back and sees only a life spent chasing time, may feel they need more. The one who suddenly realizes—this is the only life I have—may feel they need more.

As Confucius said: “We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”

But the one who lives moment to moment never needs more or less time. For them, it is enough. They never rush.

As Lao Tzu reminds us: “Nature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished.”

Those who need time are the ones forever chasing ego’s goals, always in the future, missing the life here and now. And for them, no number of eons will ever be enough.

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