"Chronos is clocks, deadlines, watches, calendars, agendas, planners, schedules, beepers. Chronos is time at her worst. Chronos keeps track. ...Chronos is the world's time.
Kairos is transcendence, infinity, reverence, joy, passion, love, the Sacred. Kairos is intimacy with the Real. Kairos is time at her best. ...Kairos is Spirit's time. We exist in Chronos. We long for Kairos. That's our duality. Chronos requires speed so that it won't be wasted. Kairos requires space so that it might be savored.
We do in Chronos. In Kairos we're allowed to be ... It takes only a moment to cross over from Chronos into Kairos, but it does take a moment. All that Kairos asks is our willingness to stop running long enough to hear the music of the spheres."
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is so strange to live in such a duality. During the day while i am working i need to keep deadlines, prepare schedules, keep track of all the things i am doing. But i dont like that. At nights I try to be with kairos and enjoy every moment, leave my thoughts as i did a bit more then a month ago. But it gets harder and harder sometimes to do so. Other times i just need to close my eyes and i can lift myself up, but usually the more i work, i spend with chronos, the harder it is to enjoy kairos. Couldnt it be easier? Just to be with kairos all the time? Or mostly with him?
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