Time, Ursual Le Guin, The Dispossessed 1974 pp 194-196
"It is only in consciousness, it seems, that we experience time at all. A little baby has no time; [they] can't distance [themself] from the past and understand how it relates to [their]future. [They] do not know time passes; [they] do not understand death. The unconscious mind of the adult is like that still. In a dream there is no time, and succession is all changed about, and cause and effect are all mixed together. In myth and legend there is no time. What past is it that the tale means when it says 'Once upon a time'? And so, when the mystic makes the reconnection of [their] reason and [their] unconscious, [they] see all becoming as one being, and understands the eternal return.... you could see it as an effort to strike a balance...Sequency explains beautifully our sense of linear time, and the evidence of evolution. It includes creation, and mortality. But it stops there. It deals with all that changes but it cannot explain why things also endure. It speaks onl...