Numbers 9:22 · World English Bible
Whether it was two days, or a month, or a year that the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and didn’t travel; but when it was taken up, they traveled.
Two days or a whole year, it made no difference to them, because they were not counting. They were not measuring the waiting against some imagined schedule in the head.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
Two days or a whole year, it made no difference to them, because they were not counting. They were not measuring the waiting against some imagined schedule in the head. They simply remained until it was time to move, and then they moved.
The mind hates waiting and calls it wasted time, yet nothing is wasted when you are fully here. Whether life keeps you still for an hour or a season, you can meet it without resistance instead of straining toward the next thing. And when the moment to go finally arrives, you rise and go, because you stayed awake enough to recognize it.
Ego v. Being lens
How much of your day do you spend calling the present moment a delay?
The one who stops measuring is no longer early or late. Time only drags for the mind that is counting it.
The monk sweeps the yard for years and calls none of it waiting. Each stroke was the practice, not the delay before it.
Life is not short, we waste it reaching for the next thing. The hour you are standing in is the only one you own.
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Ego v. Being