“Time is Greater Than Space” (Pope Francis)

This is the first of the four principles Pope Francis suggested not only to promoters of peace but to everyone interested in peaceful social relations. This is my second commentary.

Pope is insisting that for a   human interaction to be authentic and meaningful we should give more importance to process than to results, to persons than to products, to emotions than to ideas.

This attention and sensitivity to the heart over the mind needs time. Gentleness cannot be rushed. Presence is not imposed. Respect has to be spontaneous and free not abrupt and mechanical. Mutual awareness really needs time. True friendship is not forged by counting man-hours or woman-hours, so to say.

The Pope seems to have a mystical vision of time. He seems to say that when we spend more time with others and our motive is love, then we will discover   God in one another. This discovery when deepened through loving interaction especially with the poor will bring us into a mystical and loving union with God.  A further deepening of this union through a disciplined prayer and contemplation, we become unworried about what time is it and where we are because in God there no Time and no Space.

Someone has written in the Internet in awe and wonder asking how Pope Francis spends his time, and how he exudes godliness and wisdom. If I am not mistaken, the above reflection seems to be an answer.