Finding Time

05.10.10

This morning as I was multitasking by reading in the bathroom, I came across the best time management advice I’ve read in a long time.  In “Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life”, Zen priest Karen Maezur Miller replies to the question “where do you find the time?” This is asked of her constantly , as she is a priest, wife, mother, author, etc, etc.  She gets tired of the questions, and answers it as follows:

“I don’t.  I never yet have found time. Time isn’t something we find, but time is something we lose, all those times we fail to recognize that time is always at hand.

We are never apart from time. This is not how we think, especially when we think that time is coming, or that time has passed; that time is the prize, or more often, that it is the problem.

Time doesn’t even exist. You exist. Time is what you are doing at the time you are doing it.  There is no time other than this, so stop searching for the perfect metaphor and pick up the rake, already.”