I ask, "What is time?"

Zohar answers, “Time is something you are born into. Time is the regulation of cause and effect, or so it seems, but there is a principle you have in science called “symmetry.” It means many things, but with regards to time it says that there is an arrow of time that relates cause before effect, leading to more causes, more effects, and so on. However, symmetry says that you can run all the formula’s backwards. You can literally run the clock backward. You can turn the arrow of time around and go from effect back to cause. It makes no difference. The universe functions quite well whichever way the arrow of time is pointing.

“There is an ancient tribe of American Indian that has just one word for yesterday, today, and tomorrow. When they mean “yesterday,” they say the word while pointing backwards. When they mean to say “tomorrow” they say the word with their finger pointed forward, and when they mean “today” they point up. Thus, the same word conveys what appears to be three different meanings but is, in fact, one and the same.

“Tomorrow and yesterday do not exist. They are mere phantoms. Yesterday is remorse, guilt, grief, and fond recollections. Tomorrow is worry, anxiety, and fear, and anticipation. These emotions are real, and nothing else.

“So, what does exist? Today exists. The now exists. The infinitesimal present moment exists and is going nowhere. Here is where you must live. Not in the past or the future but in the present moment. So, you can quite comfortably forget about the past and future and live only in the now which is where you reside. Only this way will you see truth that transcends time."