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Time is not what we usually think it is. It is not the movement of the sun, the moon, or the Earth, and it is not the ticking of a clock. Those are merely external signs that we use to measure something much deeper that is happening within us.
What, then, is time? Time is the sensation of changes that take place within us.
In order to bring us to a perception of reality where we sense total connection between us, others, and reality as a whole, an eternal sense of pleasure flowing through us unboundedly, and a complete perception of reality’s laws, we need to learn how to manage the constant inner changes taking place within us. Nature thus places us between two opposite systems. One system is based on giving, love, and bestowal, an altruistic system. The other system is based on receiving, self-interest, and separation, an egoistic system. When taking steps toward the complete perception of reality, we constantly move between these two influences. Sometimes we feel ourselves under the influence of one system, and sometimes under the influence of the other.
This alternating transition, from the governance of the egoistic system to the governance of the altruistic system, and back again, is what we perceive as the passage of time. Time is the sensation of these internal transitions. Each change in our inner state creates a feeling that something has moved forward, that something has passed.
Therefore, time is no objective external phenomenon. It is a subjective sensation that arises from our inner changes. Even the movements of the sun, the moon, and the Earth, by which we normally measure time, are perceived within our consciousness. They are also part of our internal picture of reality.
In this sense, time exists only in our perception. It is the measure of how our inner states change as we move between egoistic reception and altruistic bestowal, gradually learning to understand the complete picture of reality and our place within it.
Based on KabTV’s “New Life 934 – What Is the Future?” on December 19, 2017. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.