We are that which asks the question. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep. The idea that time may vary from place to place is a difficult one, but it is the idea Einstein used, and it is correct - believe it or not. There is one simplification at least. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
Ignorance is never better that knowledge.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as some thing separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely but the striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security. If the prospect of a dying universe causes us anguish, it does so only because we can forecast it, and we have as yet not the slightest idea why such forecasts are possible for us.