The Time Keeper

by Mitch Albom

“You marked the minutes,” the old man said. “But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?” Dor looked down. He knew the answer was no. “What must I do?” he asked. “Find two souls on earth, one who wants too much time and one who wants too little. Teach them what you have learned.”

Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

..but you will end up in even more pain..so don’t go that slippery path..time is limited so spend that in pursuit to find love as there is someone sure waiting for your love

Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same

When we are most alone is when we embrace another’s loneliness.

But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.

Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.” “What’s that?” “Hope.”

endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have.”

My book summary God gave us limited time so we appreciate experiences what we get during life..with unlimited time we will not appreciate. But then we humans knowing time is limited, want to maximize appreciation in the limited time..so we started measuring time to make faster progress each day (what gets measured gets delivered)…but in this pursuit of measuring life, we stopped living life. “The simple joy of living between sunrises was gone” mark the minutes..use them wisely To be still To cherish To be grateful To lift and be lifted Goes back to 1. Shukrana, Muskarana, wah sai wah 2. Santosh, advet, mon, aikant 3.Big I = Be nothing (oneness ), do nothing, want nothing

“There is a reason God limits our days.” “Why?” “To make each one precious.”

He explained how once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied. There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between sunrises was gone. “Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour?” Dor said. “It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.”

“When you are measuring life, you are not living it. I know.”

We do not realize the sound the world makes—unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.

That’s what meditation helps us achieve