How long have we been on the journey? [Buddha explains]

[Intraplanetary]

Imagine a mountain. Six miles long, six miles wide, six miles high. And very hundred years a bird flies over the mountain with a silk scarf in its beak; and it runs this silk scarf over the mountain once every hundred years. The length of time it would take the silk scarf to wear away the mountain - that’s how long we’ve been doing this.

This life is less than a blink of an eye.

[RickyFitts]

I think I need about a month to fully absorb that. I'll have to pick up all the pieces of my mind first though, it's currently in bits all over the floor 

[impulse9]

Sounds about right

[Moksha]

I heard that analogy as a kid in high school. Made me realize that eternity is so infinitely timeless. No wonder Consciousness creates.