Time flows. But if something flows, it changes with respect to time. So time must change with respect to time. But nothing can change with respect to itself. This paradox flows from the basic paradox inherent in the definition of time. Read any general physics textbook and you will find that time is defined by a unit of time: the duration, or amount of time from one cycle to the next, of a…

To realize the true self is a task that may not be easy for a number of reasons. Why should it be so difficult? One cause is that we live in space and time. This answer is easy to articulate but hard to appreciate fully. The problem has to do with the reality that, while time and space seem to be out there as objective facts, they also turn out to be deeply ingrained in the in here world of…