Expansion and consolidation are the cycle. Even galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in.
Some ideas on how to condense these impressions into thoughts;
Time is not so much the present moving past to future, as it is change, turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.
There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present. Cause becomes effect.
Energy is "conserved," because it is only present. It creates time, not the other way around. Frequencies and amplitudes. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.
So energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall. Lives go birth to death, while life moves onto the next generation, shedding the old.
Consciousness goes past to future, while perceptions, emotions and thoughts go future to past.
Yet it is the heart and gut processing and circulating the energy driving us, while the central nervous system distinguishes, sorts and orders the forms precipitating out.
Suggesting the mind is more lens and filter for consciousness, than the source of this light within.
So we exist in this constant tension between desire and judgement. Transcendence and order.
I try ordering the transcedence. Sort of like riding a wave. Somewhere between the absolute putting in and the infinite expanding out.
More thermodynamics, than temporality.