When we are freed from the tyranny of time, we can begin to look differently at the world, and when we look differently we begin to recognize just what an odd place it is. When we look at the world in this way we are no longer bound by the dangerous illusion that our “ultimate destiny and happiness is tied to how we ‘spend’ [our] time.
John Swinton in Vanier/Hauerwas, Living Gently in a Violent World, p 104.