For spiritual development as well as human progress, we can take care of our time better. One thing we'll all benefit by is realizing the importance of this moment, and each moment. If we take care of our moments, then the hours look after themselves.
This is not just a matter of pressing oneself to better utilize a finite twenty four hours. (We can easily get into bad time habits, keeping one eye on the flicking figures of a digital clock and so being stressed and feeling limited.) It's a matter of growing in spiritual and metaphysical understanding, a matter of distinguishing between time and eternity. Eternity, in which we live, is not vastly extended time but a yearless and hour-less state of immortal being. Nor is it eventless. It is typified by the substantial activity of divine Life.
We should resist any inclination to drift into thinking that spiritual growth and affirmations of the truth of being are better done at some time other than the present. Common sense leads us to organize—and defend—suitable uninterrupted periods for prayer, study, and for pondering the spiritual realities we are learning. But even at those study times we may postpone making the profound spiritual affirmations of truth that we need regularly to make, and to make now.
