Time does not move, what moves is Us

We often speak as if time were a river — flowing endlessly forward, carrying us from past to future. Yet what if it’s not time that flows, but us? What if every moment simply is, motionless and complete, and it is consciousness that moves — a traveler passing through the stillness of eternity?

Physics hints at this strange idea. Einstein’s theory of relativity describes time not as a flowing entity but as a dimension of space-time — a vast landscape in which every event, past and future, already exists. From this view, the universe is a block — unchanging, eternal. Nothing “happens” inside it; instead, we experience slices of it, one after another, giving rise to the illusion of motion.

But that illusion feels profoundly real. We sense time passing — the present slipping away, memories fading behind us, possibilities forming ahead. If time does not move, then what is this feeling of flow, of change, of loss? Perhaps it is the mind’s way of stitching static moments into a narrative — the rhythm of awareness moving across the still frame of reality.

In this sense, we are not passengers on time’s current; we are the current itself. Each thought, each memory, each heartbeat marks our passage through an unmoving world. The ticking of a clock does not measure time passing — it measures us experiencing time.

To realize that time does not move is not to deny change, but to see it differently. The world does not unfold — we unfold within it. The past, the future, the present are not separate rivers, but one vast ocean of being. And through that stillness, it is we who move — not forward, but through existence itself.