Understand the Motif (show more)

Time: An illusion made with the separation and used by the ego for delay, holding the past over the future and postponing the one decision that would end it. The Holy Spirit uses time only to make time unnecessary through the miracle and the holy instant.

Time: Only eternity is real, and time contradicts it. The entire span of time occurred in a single tiny instant that was immediately answered by God’s Correction, making all of time already over. What feels like living through time is the mind reviewing what has already gone by, and it reviews by choice: the instant it chooses against joining, it chooses time again. The ego uses time to compound guilt and preserve the past by making it determine the future—and above all to delay, since staying inside the review is how it avoids the one decision that would end time. Delay is a choice rather than a fact, and it survives by looking reasonable: postponement passes for patience, and a grievance held passes for discernment. The Holy Spirit uses time to render the need for time unnecessary, emphasizing the present as the only aspect that extends to the infinite. The miracle collapses intervals of learning, which shortens time, and the holy instant stands outside time entirely, free of past and future.