How can we control time instead of time controlling us?

Question from the Internet:

“Does time flow past us like a river, or are we moving through time like a boat through the sea?”

As long as we are locked into our inherently limited and distorted, 100% egocentric, subjective, and individualistic perception and consciousness, time is like a river that throws us from one extreme to another, and we behave like helpless and mindless driftwood floating aimlessly between involuntary birth and mostly involuntary death.

When we learn and practice how to escape our inherent state, we start perceiving and “computing” reality through the desires, needs, and viewpoints of others — while completely forgetting about ourselves — we start understanding the developmental process we need to go through, we start to feel and control the cause-and-effect processes that influence everything in life.

This way — although we can’t change the obligatory and predetermined developmental states we have to go through — we can recognize and agree to each and every next stage in our development instead of falling into blindly or instinctively resisting them.

This way, we can hasten the time of our development until we reach a state where we actually rise above sensing time or space altogether since we totally disconnect from our inherently egocentric, subjective, and individualistic perception and consciousness and thus detach ourselves from all the inherent limitations.