And it is a week of living in kairos time that is epically rich in all things that cannot be measured - community, nature, and celebration. Our sailing trips are the best examples of living purely kairologically, for we are moving by the mercy of our collective actions and by the wind, not by any clock or calendar. A state of flow is activated, and it cannot be measured but only experienced. When you find yourself in kairos time, you completely lose track of chronos time. There is an element of serendipity, and a feeling of ceasing an opportunity, in those precious moments where time stands still and everything feels possible. I get it.’ Or, ‘This is as perfect as it can be.’ Or, ‘It doesn’t get any better than this.’” We all know those moments, don’t we? They may be few and far between but sometimes a kairos moment in life can feed your soul, like fuel, for many months at a time.
It is qualitative time where you have the opportunity to move forward in the present, untethered by any moving clock or calendar.įranciscan friar and author Richard Rohr, refers to kairos as those moments in life where you stop and say, “ ‘Oh my God, this is it. It can be measured in deep exhales, a shared laugh, or by a colorful sunset. This is the time we’re talking about where the world seems to stop entirely. “Kairos” is what many philosophers and mystics would refer to as “deep time”. The Greeks’ second word for time is “kairos” - lesser known but no less important. Chronos is the forward propelling time that we measure with clocks, on watches, and by the evolutionary phases of the moon.
The word “chronos” (you probably recognize this one as the root for the English words “chronological” and “chronicle”) refers to measured, ticking, quantitative time. The ancient Greeks had two different words for the concept of time - “chronos” and “kairos”. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J.R.R.
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