"Personal time" is just one aspect of the sense of sacred time we have lost in our culture. Personal time has several characteristics that set it off from the clock time by which we normally live. It is fluid, uneven, and of varying intensity. We generally experience it as richer, more textured, and more cohesive that clock time. It is the time we experience when we let our hair down. It is the difference between the commute to work and a walk along a beach. It is the time we invite people to enter when we say, "Be yourself."
— Gary Eberle, Sacred Time and The Search for Meaning