Time & Perspective Quote by Vinoba Bhave

The line lands like a gentle rebuke to the modern faith that everything meaningful can be measured. Bhave is pointing at the busy, half-invisible machinery of being alive: breathing, perceiving, reacting, remembering, choosing, flinching, forgiving. The phrase "through us" matters. It suggests agency isn’t always a heroic, conscious act; much of life happens via currents we host rather than commands we issue. You’re not a manager of the self so much as a crossroads where impulses, habits, and attention meet.

The intent isn’t mystical fog. It’s practical ethics. If you really tried to itemize every internal movement, you’d be trapped in an infinite audit, the spiritual version of doomscrolling. Counting becomes a compulsion, and compulsion becomes a substitute for living. Bhave’s warning is that self-scrutiny can metastasize into self-absorption: an endless ledger of motives and micro-decisions that feels like responsibility but functions like paralysis.

Context sharpens it. As a Gandhian educator and activist, Bhave lived in a world of deliberate discipline - vows, practices, reforms built from everyday conduct. He’s not dismissing action; he’s widening it. The subtext: stop flattering yourself that only the big, public gestures matter, and stop assuming you can control life by tracking it. Real change, personal or political, depends on guiding the stream - attention, intention, habit - not pretending you can count every drop.