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kairos, a specific, opportune moment that stands apart – a time that is timeless, perpetual, “a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through if success is to be achieved.” xxvi
Lucy H. Pearce • Creatrix: she who makes
Meeting Kairos – an Emergence Magazine Practice
Deadlines are chronos, the world’s time; Divinity knows only kairos, Eternity. The deadline will be met if I remember to ask for grace.
Sarah B. Breathnach • Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort & Joy
the ancient Greeks distinguished two kinds of time, “kairos (opportunity or the propitious moment) and chronos (eternal or ongoing time). While the first . . . offers hope, the second extends a warning.” Kairos is the time of cleverness, chronos the time of wisdom.
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
Value brainstorm:
patience: do slow, manual work, site with things, wonder, let things take their own course, don’t rush, let people have the time they need …
patterns: fractals, things at multiple scales, put things into visual to see the true nature of reality, abstractions are okay …
synthesis: fuse opposites, don’t take sides, find peace, let