Circular time vs. linear time - Austin Kleon
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Circular time vs. linear time - Austin Kleon
What if we could embody a different relationship with time ? If we took other images from our world - spirals, zig-zags, rhizomes, crystals, the folds of a midnight flower, the pulsing undulations of the jellyfish - and allowed our narratives of becoming and transformation (personal or otherwise) to follow those contours and weaves, those meta patt... See more
Radiant Body of Time
Einstein’s Dreams: Physicist Alan Lightman’s Poetic Exploration of Time and the Antidote to the Anxiety of Aliveness – The Marginalian
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But as many aboriginal cultures view it, time is more circular in pattern; not like the Western linear comprehension of time as past-present-future, but flexible to the individual at the centre of that “time-circle.”
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
The clock does not measure time; it produces it.
noemamag.com • The Tyranny of Time | NOEMA
Thomas refers to the latter perspective as “the time-developmental model.”13 His larger point is that our approach to the development of anything must now embrace both models — both circle and arc (in a sense, both feminine and masculine), which together describe a spiral progression through space and time.
Bill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
We experience time in a very different way from people immersed in flat schedules and story-less surfaces. In our spheres of existence, time does not go in a straight line, and it is as tangible as the ground we stand on.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
The “clock time” that unites all the live flow systems, animate and inanimate, is measurable. The day–night period lasts 24 hours on all the watches, wall clocks, and bell towers. Yet, physical time is not mind time. The time that you perceive is not the same as the time perceived by another. Why? Because the young mind receives more images during
... See moreAdrian Bejan • Time And Beauty: Why Time Flies And Beauty Never Dies
“I want to think about time in a shared way,” Odell said. “What becomes possible collectively when you remove the grid, and stop thinking about it as little bits of time currency in each individual person’s time bank, and that all you can do is hoard it.”