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Time and Love and Truth and Art. A foursome intertwined that encircles the world of my thoughts as they spin in search of the answer to why am I here; why any of us are here. Time and Love and Truth and Art.
I remember a 1969 movie called Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, which was about bedfellows who can change partners at will. Time and Love and Truth and Art remind me of that film. I cannot seem to negotiate any of them without involving all the rest.
Time is so elusive. Changeable. It can simultaneously move at a snail’s pace and travel faster than the speed of light. The seemingly endless day-to-day drudgery of doing things that must be done seems to live seamlessly inside having our children be dependent infants one day and full-grown adults facing demons we can’t help them with only a few weeks later. How can both speeds exist simultaneously? And how do we negotiate those speeds when they are so clearly out of anyone’s control?
Some folks seem able to ride the roller coaster of it with ease at times, but in my observation, everyone has times where there is either not enough Time, too much Time, or both…at the same Time. The only thing I’ve ever found that anchors me – (anchors my thoughts?) – when Time and I are at odds, is Love. Being centered in Love.
Accepting that Love is always the answer… the solution…. the key to unlocking any door… the missing piece of the puzzle.
Love with other people – love with the world and universe around us – Love with creation and what we contribute to it – but more than anything Love of ourselves, which is often tenuous and illusive. Elusive like Time, but in a different way. Time keeps itself ungrabable, whereas Love is able to surround us, inhabit us, consume us, and seemingly fade or slip away without notice.
Love is the energy between all things, which holds everything together. Materially smaller than molecules but stronger than any other substance, and the thing that connects all of it to all of it; it’s what makes up space and binds water to itself.
We are always moving through it even when we are not aware of feeling it. It’s antithesises – antithesIE? – more than one antithesis…. are only illusions caused by fear or greed. They try to convince us that Love is expendable and Power is more valuable. But Power is an illusion. Power, however, obtained, cannot hold.
Fear is a child of uncertain thought… Fear can save us at times, but fear also lies. Greed is pointless. Nothing material lasts forever, and in the wanting of “more” you lose the Joy of “now.” But Love always survives.
Love is indestructible. Many have tried to destroy or ignore it, but to no avail. Even when thrown away, walked away from, and left to hopefully rot because we think it betrayed us, Love – to some degree – remains.
Over Time, I’m finding that the Truest of Truths is that Love is not just the reason for everything, as many have written, but the core of everything.
That’s Truth. Truth remains constant – but it also changes. Truth can be “I love dark chocolate” but, without warning, can also be “No more dark chocolate” at another time. Both statements are true – but true at different times.
Truth there, in bed with Time…. rolling around…. one on top for a while and then the other…. each taking turns as Love expresses in its many flavors.
How can “I love so many people deeply ” and “I’m most at peace when I’m alone at the coast” both be true? How can one person be seen as a saint with the key to salvation by some and also be seen as the spawn of Satan & the root of all evil by others? Each opinion is true, depending on who you ask.
So, Truth changes. Time is elusive. Love is unending. And as humanity tries to come to terms with it all, the only way we have to express/share our observations and thoughts is through Art.
To be continued next week.
