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COMMENTARY: We live in a world where time is indivisible. Our lives become more meaningful and tradition becomes possible only when we acknowledge that fact.
We live from moment to moment. We measure time in millennia, decades, years, months, weeks, days, minutes and seconds. This is practical since it allows us to determine our age, celebrate anniversaries, be on time for meetings, organize air flights and take care of sundry other matters of importance.
And yet, time never stops at any point. It is an unbroken flow that cannot, in itself, be divided into parts. We know this intuitively, although we never lose sight of the practical significance of chronometers.
Mozart conceived his music all at once rather than in a sequence. Musicologists refer to this phenomenon in the German language as einfallen, which means “falling into place as one.” T.S. Eliot’s expression, “in my beginning is my end” also suggests how the future can be contained in the present.
The deeper insight into life indicates that the moment in the present cannot convey the true meaning of time. We tend to glorify the moment and have difficulty waiting for something better to come by. We are advised, however, that in patience we will possess our souls (Luke 21:19-21).
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We live from moment to moment. We measure time in millennia, decades, years, months, weeks, days, minutes and seconds. This is practical since it allows us to determine our age, celebrate anniversaries, be on time for meetings, organize air flights and take care of sundry other matters of importance.
And yet, time never stops at any point. It is an unbroken flow that cannot, in itself, be divided into parts. We know this intuitively, although we never lose sight of the practical significance of chronometers.
Mozart conceived his music all at once rather than in a sequence. Musicologists refer to this phenomenon in the German language as einfallen, which means “falling into place as one.” T.S. Eliot’s expression, “in my beginning is my end” also suggests how the future can be contained in the present.
The deeper insight into life indicates that the moment in the present cannot convey the true meaning of time. We tend to glorify the moment and have difficulty waiting for something better to come by. We are advised, however, that in patience we will possess our souls (Luke 21:19-21).
Continued below.
The Indivisibility of Time and the Meaning of Tradition
COMMENTARY: We live in a world where time is indivisible. Our lives become more meaningful and tradition becomes possible only when we acknowledge that fact.
