Understanding What Is "Time"

We created the concept of time to *measure our experience of the space
between events. Time passes only because we experience change. What is
change? Change is only a series of events. So time is our experience of the
speed of events.* This explains why time seems to be moving faster today,
because both the speed and the number of events are increasing. And it seems
even faster if we participate in those events. If the speed and number of
events was less, we would experience time to be moving slowly, as it used to
be a little earlier in the history of mankind.

Today, sitting in our living rooms and offices, electronic, print and other
media allows us to observe hundreds of events from all over the world, every
day. To observe them actively is to participate in them.* If you want to
slow time down, learn to be a detached observer of the thousands of events
around you - participate or observe actively only when necessary. If you
want to stop time, meditate and be in your original, timeless, eternal
consciousness.* Meditation is after all an art of shutting down your senses
and slowing down. Today, we fear time, as a result we hear ourselves saying
many a times, "Hurry up, time is running out!" or "I hope to have more time
tomorrow!' or "I need to save time!" Ultimately time, is our life: it cannot
be saved or lost, but must be lived now. This is where your will-power is
important - we can choose exactly how we spend our time at any moment.