Two lines in A Course in Miracles - Chapter 10, Paragraph 14, lines 8 and 9:

“Time and eternity cannot both be real, because they contradict each other. If you will accept only what is timeless as real, you will begin to understand eternity and make it yours.”

These are lines that I only just recently read and highlighted, shared during a study session on Wednesday, and that once again came to mind just one day later.

Yesterday, I was having another spiritual conversation with my Mom, jumping into thoughts, feelings, emotions…her recollections of certain experiences with my late father…the journey in this life…when I was compelled to pull up her Gene Keys Hologenetic Profile to share with her the paragraphs that detail her Activation Sequence. Being that there is a deep and profound draw for myself to my own profile and the words written within, I wanted to share these with her. Rather than just printing it off and handing it to her, I asked her to listen as I read them each out loud. I tried not to have any expectations, but I was also hoping that she would connect with something that would validate her travelled path at this time. As I began reading, I saw her immediately feeling into the words.

My Life’s Work - what I’m here to do. At the articulation of her paragraph here, I watched as she closed her eyes and nodded in agreement. My Evolution - what I’m here to learn. She feels it thoroughly. My Radiance - what keeps me healthy. I had a little reservation with a sentence in the paragraph on this one, but read it anyways - “Your home needs to be an oasis where people gather to draw sustenance from being around you.” To my surprise, she said, “It’s funny, because I’ve been thinking, it would be nice to have a friend over. Then my kids pop in and I introduce them.” My Purpose - what deeply fulfills me. This paragraph being the only one where the wording didn’t fully grab her, but once sentence did - “It is your deepest core that you are here to bring to the planet - your ability to move through life like a child, allowing everything to influence you but nothing to knock out your spirit of playfulness and wonder.” She said, “Yes…like a child!!!”

She gave a contemplative smirk, and said, “That is what has been going on for a while now.” She was speaking to the overall theme of these four areas noted, and even further, her awareness in retrospection of them. It wasn’t always at the forefront of her mind that this framework of a path was being lived or experienced. There had been many a day where she questioned her own purpose and existence, many a day where she questioned struggles and encounters, many a day where she felt like she wasn’t seen or heard or meant something. Yet, here we stood in conversation, and you could tell she felt it. These pieces of her soul shining through, after all the trials, after all this time. Time had no application here. This is timeless, and it is real.

We spend so much time in this life on doing, achieving, collecting accolades, making a name for ourselves and our families. We feel rushed when we are pressed for deadlines. We feel guilt when we don’t meet them. We shame ourselves when we don’t meet our own self-imposed deadlines or goals. We create this sense of scarcity concerning time within our minds, driving ourselves crazy to fit things in. We “bucket list” things we want to do before we die. We live in a world where “time is money”, yet neither time nor money are real - we place perceived values on them and live according to those values.

Imagine if someone was dying - their physical body preparing to be exited, that is - and we spent “time” worrying about how we weren’t going to physically have them around anymore…and then how that “time spent” worrying about the future was holding us away from the timelessness of the present moment, where they are still here physically, and even where their essence will never leave - it is within us.

I’ve had countless moments in my life of reflection where I was upset with myself for taking so long to arrive at conclusions, or openings, or awakenings, or feelings, or having conscious awareness of new levels. “Taking so long”. I’ve held myself hostage to time. Then, in hindsight, it was always “right ON time”. The journey unfolds as it must. Time keeps getting thrown in, because it’s a concept that mankind has built to help conceptualize and provide structure and framework to this life…but beyond even its veil lies what is real.

It always comes back to NOW. And NOW. And NOW. The present moment, where time means nothing. When we are present, we are timeless. When we are non-physical, we are timeless. Bringing both of those ingredients together into this 3-D world, the hourglass no longer matters. We are here. We are real. As we connect in fullness to that non-physical aspect of us in the present moment, we are also “there” and “everywhere”. We are eternal.

If you want to know what matters in any given moment, ask yourself: “What is timeless here?”