Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely, and aperiodic; it is the inner cadence that brings fruit to ripeness, a woman to childbirth, a man to change the direction of his life.
Sam KeenI've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.
Sam KeenYou don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.
Sam KeenWe [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor!
Sam Keen