Jack ended this morning’s conference call quoting from this week’s reading about how we seem to be sentenced to occupy a vanishingly small present moment, because both\u00c2\u00a0Past and Future are constructs, not\u00c2\u00a0time which we can step into.\u00c2\u00a0 This seems a similar point to the one that we can’t walk in someone else’s shoes or look through their eyes.\u00c2\u00a0 However through friendship we can connect to the minds and hearts of other people.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps friendship is a tool we can also use to contact the past and future.\u00c2\u00a0 If we can feel empathy for the versions of ourselves who lived our lives\u00c2\u00a0in the past, perhaps we not only connect to that past time, but through this feeling of friendship we may find that we are not alone in facing the issues of today.\u00c2\u00a0 And if we can open to the future in a way that gives voice to that future, rather than projecting out needs and wants onto it, perhaps the energy and hope of an unborn future will pour into this otherwise “vanishing moment”.\u00c2\u00a0 –Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jack ended this morning’s conference call quoting from this week’s reading about how we seem to be sentenced to occupy a vanishingly small present moment, because both\u00c2\u00a0Past and Future are constructs, not\u00c2\u00a0time which we can step into.\u00c2\u00a0 This seems a … Continue reading