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Jun 15, 2006
"Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love." --Rumi
South American Twist in Time
Einstein proved that time was relative, but he may not even have known about this: researchers studying the language and gesture of South America's indigenous Aymara people found that speakers often simply refused to talk about the future on the grounds that little or nothing sensible could be said about it! Scientists realized that the Aymara actually have a concept of time opposite to all the world's studied cultures -- so that the past is ahead of them and the future behind!
BE THE CHANGE
Experiment with your sense of time: imagine that "the future" is behind you, that you can't see it or plan for it. How does it change your experience of this moment?
