Time
The Ancient Greeks had two words for time:
1. Chronos = sequential, quantitative time
2. Kairos = fluctuating, qualitative time
Here's why you need to understand kairos... https://t.co/UfjSNRKU3P
Life is going so fast because you're not injecting enough silence into your days. Spend an hour reading or writing or walking in silence and watch how your day seems to double in duration
Dylan O'Sullivanx.comChronos (Χρόνος):
Measurable, linear, homogeneous time.
Measured by clocks, calendars, minutes.
Flows continuously in equal segments.
Frames life events such as birth and death.
In modern capitalism, labor, production, wages, and productivity are organized according to the logic of chronos.
Example: An 8-hour workday, a 50-minute class, a project
In a world geared for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry—to allow things to take the time they take—is a way to gain purchase on the world, to do the work that counts, and to derive satisfaction from the doing itself, instead of deferring all your fulfillment to the future.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Slow living shouldn’t be a trend but your default state. Historically and evolutionary speaking, being in a hurry is a crazy exception, not the norm. Seneca argues that “nothing is as useful as it should be if it’s done with haste.” Being in a rush cancels the present moment which in turn cancels anything of depth and value on a spiritual level.
... See moreVizi Andrei • The Sovereign Artist
But in this process, we must remember something important: life is not meant to be rushed through. It is not a race, nor is it a problem to be solved. It is an experience to be lived, and living well requires presence. To focus on one thing deeply, to give it your full attention, is to experience it fully. And when we do this, something remarkable... See more
Bill Wear • The Quiet Art of Attention
that non-doing is applicable whether you are suffering from not having “enough time” or suffering from having “too much time.” The challenge here is for you to put this proposition to the test in your own life, to see for yourself whether your relationship to time can be transformed through the practice of non-doing—in other words, though the
... See moreJon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
"Long ago, before the Great Clock, time was measured by changes in heavenly bodies: the slow sweep of stars across the night sky, the arc of the sun and variation in light, the waxing and waning of the moon, tides, seasons. Time was measured also by heartbeats, the rhythms of drowsiness and sleep, the recurrence of hunger, the menstrual cycles of... See more
The Marginalian • Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time and the Antidote to the Anxiety of Aliveness – The Marginalian
Time, and how we experience time, is always a cultural creation. Most cultures are taught—to put this very simply—that time is circular. Subsequently, you can see the world being played out in a circular way. What’s interesting about Western cultures is, at some point, we said, “You know what? We’re not circular. We’re an arrow. We’re not looking
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