I was running through my isolation scaffolding and at some point I realized that I was running too fast, literally "running faster than my breathing". The phrase came by itself, I decided that it had surfaced from a recent book. I slowed down and my breathing immediately coincided with me, in time and space. I began to run slower, but along with my breathing.
When I read the prophecies about how everything will be "after" and how it should be done now (and, of course, it should be done only this way, and those who do not do so are already in the past), now I imagine exactly this - running faster than your breathing, faster than events develop, faster than time, faster than you have time to realize what has happened and how to interact with it now.
No instructions, just a useful metaphor.
