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...we've tried to understand its nature in order to feel like we had some control over it. Time's mystery is difficult for most of us to appreciate because we seem to have so little of it. Although we've been all given the same twenty-four hours each day, it doesn't seem to go very far, and we each seem to have a different reality when it comes to time.
...those with time on their hands - saints, poets, mystics, masters, sages, and philosophers - have pondered time's enigma. They've discovered her duality. As the sculptor and poet Henry Van Dyke explains: "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice". Einstein proved the relativity of time, and its perspective reality. Slow and swift are time's parallel identities: the yin and yang of existence.
The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the base word for chronological. It is the time we measure by clocks and calendars and is always linear, orderly, quantifiable and mechanical. Kairos is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely and aperiodic; it is the inner cadence of life. 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 are allowed to be.
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