They appeal to the deepest and most healthy parts of ourselves. They are not, I felt, to be metered out robotically, even when the meter is the rhythm of the Earth turning on its axis. The sacred creates its own time. That is why native ceremonies, for example, start when they need to start and end when they need to end. They cannot be confined.
Sacred space is without time.
We enter it from time, and return to time when we leave it. As we become more practiced in making larger and larger parts of our lives sacred, time becomes less and less important. I discussed this with my editor, Marilyn Abraham. We came up with this perfect book . It is spiral-bound at the top, and opens as an easel.