The Illusion of Time: What Mystics Know About Past, Present, and Future

The Illusion of Time: What Mystics Know About Past, Present, and Future I remember sitting with my master, Amma, many years ago. The sun was setting, painting the sky in hues of orange an...

The Illusion of Time: What Mystics Know About Past, Present, and Future I remember sitting with my master, Amma, many years ago. The sun was setting, painting the sky in hues of orange and purple.

I was a young man then, full of questions and a restless energy. I asked her, “Amma, I feel like time is slipping through my fingers.

The past haunts me, the future worries me, and the present is gone before I can even grasp it.

What is this thing called time?” She looked at me with her deep, compassionate eyes, and a gentle smile played on her lips. She didn’t give me a complex philosophical answer.