"Time. How crucially time is linked to the mysticism of everyday life. For only when time is understood as precious, but not scarce, do we begin to live. Only when time is broken into discrete segments, and not allowed to become a blur of memories and projections - what I didn't spend enough time doing, what I won't have enough time to accomplish - can we hope to open ourselves to the opportunity of seeing God in the world. How distorted we have allowed time to become, fearing continually that it is running out. But when time is framed it provides an inner structure that brings intensity, awareness, calmness, delight. These wise monks have learned that when time is so regarded, when they live in the now, they transcend the constraints that time normally imposes upon us.
In essence, they experience eternity. For what more is eternity than the everpresent now?"
- Paul Wilkes, Beyond the Walls
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