We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.