Thirty Seconds or Less

I was a senior in high school on September 11th, 2001. I wasn’t in class; it was my hour to work as an office aid—collecting attendance, making copies, stuff like that. But on this day the energy was different. 17-year-old-me didn’t exactly know what to make of it. Why were my teachers crying? What did... The post September 11 appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote, “We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.” I’m convinced that deep inner work leads to courageous outer risks.... The post Courageous Outer Risks appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

When we love we try to show our love by keeping track of things. My kids show their love for me all the time: “Mom! Where are you?!” I have three children and they’re calling me all the time. I also show my love for them by trying to keep track. In fact, it’s very... The post When We Love appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

May you never run in vain, May your feet always be guided, May your hand always be held, May you never breathe alone, And may we always stand together. May you find the divine in the daily And the sacred in the mundane. May you be present Now and now and now and now. How... The post A Benediction appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

Be here. This year, this month, this week, this day, this hour. Even minutes can be too much for us to hold. But we can all hold this moment, this instant, that breath you just took. The trick is to choose presence in the now, not in the past or the future. It’s a hard... The post Be Here Now appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

Life is like running on a treadmill over the sea of time. If you jump off you will drown. Does it ever feel like you’re running nonstop? Describe this experience? When was the last time you thought that if you jumped off you would drown? Describe this experience. record your own // leave a comment // CREDITS... The post The Sea Of Time appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

I don’t wear a watch. I keep my phone off the table when we’re out for coffee. I lose track of time and enter this moment. Because this moment is the only one there is. I want the world around me to blur and fade as our conversation comes more and more into focus. I... The post I Will Be Here appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

“I don’t have time for that” – a common complaint in our always-too-busy world. We run from this to that to yet another thing, convincing ourselves that a busy schedule is the byproduct of a successful life (or is it the other way around?). But the truth is you do have time for that, whatever... The post Time For That appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

When we shift our sense of time to center it around the experience of the cosmos we move from a universe that revolves around us to an ever-expanding reality that we find ourselves in, a part of a larger whole rather than the peak of a self created hierarchy. I am because you are, because... The post The Family Of Things appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.

We experience time in seconds and minutes, in hours and days, in weeks and months and years. We mark our life in decades, your teens, your twenties, your thirties. We can even experience generations, posing for a photograph and capturing the moment when four generations shared the same breath. Centuries are a bit more difficult... The post Our Sense Of Time appeared first on Thirty Seconds or Less.