Our daily lives are full of emotions, constantly rising and falling. As we age, time seems to move faster. This sensation is sometimes called “the quickening.”
Interestingly, this term is also used in pregnancy to describe the moment when fetal movement is first felt—signaling the nearing of birth. In both cases, “quickening” marks the end of one cycle and the beginning of another. Both of these are physical transformations that occur in response to the ebbing of an arc; the arc of time.
Each day is a measurable unit of time, filled with a limited number of hours. And in those hours, we cycle through a range of emotions. If you were to calculate how much of your day is spent in negativity versus joy, you’d get a rough sense of your emotional habits. While it may seem natural to envision aging- this is a very new phenomenon. People were asked to meditate on a budding, blooming, and then dying flower in order to capture the notion of a lifetime or the passage of time.
Over time, we begin to notice the missed chances to be kind and to shift from being observed to becoming the observer. Layer of awareness by layer of awareness, we expand our ability to understand the subtleness in the spiritual realm that pervades all of reality. This transition introduces us to the idea of cosmic energies.
