Know One Has Enough Time

Have you ever thought that you didn’t have enough time? Most likely, the answer is yes. Enough time to do this or that, enough time to relax--enoughness is most likely an ongoing theme in your life. You may have asked yourself questions about the nature of time, wondering whether it has substance, whether there is a beginning or end to time, whether it is linear or cyclic. Time has been a mystery explored by philosophers, scientists and seers throughout the millennia.

Time can be understood as a series of successive moments that are always in motion and seem to be one continuous flow. While it often seems like time flows like a river, from another perspective, the river, unique in each moment, also seems to reveal unlimited possibility in its aleatory movement, and thus there may be more of a sense of the infinite diversity of moments, than the continuity of moments conveyed.

When tracking time, you are generally tracking events and ordering them in a sequential fashion, causing time to seem to have a direction—events line up from the past to the present to the future. You agree to this convention as a matter of practicality in navigating the relative world. Yet, even though there is general agreement about this conventional ordering of moments of time, there is significant variance among individual perception of the passage of time. Different individuals will report a wide variety of experiences in their perceptions of the same events occurring.  Time segments seem to pass slowly sometimes and quickly other times, while some past events seem to be very close to the present while others seem far, far away, regardless of when they “actually” occurred. We suggest time is what you allow it to be.

You often allow time to serve you. You order the events of your life according to a sense of meaning. You allocate time for all the most important things you might do and allow time to be a friendly assistant in the unfolding of your life. On the other hand, you often think about what you can and cannot do according to your idea of what is “enough” time. You run out of time to complete projects, you are usually late rather than “on time.” And when you think about time, it causes you may feel uneasy, conjuring up visions of the “end” of all time, and your belief of “not enough time” gets reinforced. In this case, you allow time to contribute to your limiting thoughts and beliefs.

Your perception of time is associated with presence. You must be present to master your time. We use this term, presence, to indicate a state of mindfulness, a way of being attentive to the circumstances and surroundings as well as attentive to your sensory experience of the moment. When you are present, your perception of time expands and you have mastered your time. You will more likely feel that you have enough time for the experience to be complete. If you have no focus, no attention to the moment, time will be your master.

Your perception of time is also associated with memory. Since every moment experienced quickly becomes a moment of the past, you incorporate your memory indexes the timing of the experience. Generally, you experience moments of various duration in particular sequences that are woven together into the tapestry of your life. Events overlap and hide or reveal other events. If you allow those events to seem crowded and loaded with urgency, you will likely believe “you don’t have enough time.” However, if you allow the events to be spacious and you are present with them, you can experience the enoughness of time. Allow all experiences to align in peace and presence, and you will know beyond a doubt that you have enough time.

​Enoughness is the foundation of abundance. You cannot experience a state of abundance concurrent with a feeling of “not enough.” Enough means sufficient or adequate or ample, which we suggest is always the case in everything. There is always enough, because you are enough just as you are. When this is your identified state of being—you know it with certainty—you have the confidence to approach your life with room for abundance on all levels of being. One Life is always enough, add your presence to this enoughness, and dis-satisfaction disappears. Let go of not-enoughness, declare it an impossibility, let all be as it is. And “know one has enough time” will become your deep understanding of what is here and now.

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