The Master must have known that his words were frequently beyond his disciples’ comprehension. He spoke them nonetheless in the knowledge that a day would surely come when they would take root and blossom in the hearts that heard him.
One day he said: “Time always seems too long when you wait – for a vacation, an examination, for something yearned for or dreaded in the future. But to those who dare to surrender to the experience of the present moment – with no thought about the experience, no desire that it return or be avoided – time is transformed into the radiance of Eternity.” (Anthony de Mello: One Minute Nonsense. Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, Anand, India. 1992)
J. Krishnamurti made a clear distinction between chronological time and psychological time. Chronological time is the time measured by clocks and calendars, what we refer to by minutes, hours, days and years. This convention of time and its division into units is necessary for day to day living.
Psychological time belongs to the realm of the mind. We refer to the past and future, what has been, what may be and what ought to be. This is the time that Tony is referring to in his story.
As long as we live by psychological time, we are the prisoners of the past and future neither of which in reality exists. What is there is the now, this moment of awareness. There is great freedom in the understanding of the significance of time, its unreality and its impact on us.
All of us, except for the genuinely free, carry our past with us. Many of us live there with the consequences of guilt, nostalgia, hurt feelings and so on. We live in the future hoping perhaps for the repetition of the pleasurable experiences of the past and the dread of the repetition of painful ones. So many of us are affected by what psychologists refer to as unfinished businesses, namely those experiences that were incomplete in the past and still affect them in the present. Most of us are hardly aware of the influence of the past on us. Many of us not only build castles in the air but we also live in them.
In recently years there has been a great deal of interest in the power of now and the freedom and transformation that it brings. Many of us now recognize the level of bondage that time involves and extent of freedom that is available to us.

The Irish launch of THE DEWDROP IN THE OCEAN – Wisdom Stories for Turbulent Times was held at the
as the Director of Sadhana Institute and the progress of their work together teaching awareness in Ireland, India and America. In a moving presentation Liz told the story of her own transformation through awareness and her complete commitment to bringing this work into daily living. She described the profound changes in her family as well as her work with children because of her understanding of awareness and her readiness to open herself to change.
Francis described how his relationship with Tony de Mello had turned his life upside down and initiated changes that were profound, frightening and essential. Little had he known then that this would amount to preparing him one day to succeed Tony as director of
Fran O’Reilly, CEO of 
A DEWDROP IN THE OCEAN – Wisdom Stories for Turbulent Times by Francis J. Padinjarekara was launched at Juhu
Francis spoke about his relationship with
Great mystics and masters taught through stories, poems and parables because they realised that rational speech was inadequate to communicate profound truths about the sacred dimension of life like spirituality, inner quest or the divine. This is also the experience of anyone who has attempted to reflect seriously on the deepest and most important issues of life such as love, relationships, suffering, death or freedom. “Stories are the shortest distance between human beings and truth,”
We are facing an unprecedented crisis that is affecting all areas of life – business, politics, religion, work, finances, society, family and relationships. The depression, loss of confidence, fear and confusion that have set in are affecting people all over the world.
On Boxing Day, 1971 a group of Australian Kangaroo hunters claimed to have seen a beautiful young half-naked blonde woman among kangaroos on the semi-arid plains of Nullarbor, South Australia. The claim was supported by a film footage of a woman holding a kangaroo by the tail. A huge round of publicity saw many visitors descending upon the town of Eucla with a population of 8 people at that time. 
