We spend so much of our time measuring time, by rods or miles, minutes or seconds. But its passing is the passing of our heart-beats, our life.

Less time measuring, more time living!

‘Time is not a field, to be measured in rods, nor a sea, to be measured in miles; it is a heart-beat.’

 

Source: Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation, trans. P.A. Bien (London: Faber and Faber, 1983), p. 200

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