Take time to be still
"Work is not always required ... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."
-- George MacDonald
When was the last time you did absolutely nothing?
Our world is so addicted to productivity that we feel guilty if we’re not doing something. But taking time daily to be still and inactive opens us to the spacious present. It nurtures and restores balance. Give yourself a regular gift of inactivity.
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."
-- Sir J. Lubbock
2 comments:
"Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream ..." That's Tomorrow Never Knows from the Beatles' Revolver, and it's the song your post put me in mind of. I have a very hard time doing absolutely nothing, turning off my mind. Instead of concentrating on nothing, I tend to click down the list in my head. That's why I failed so badly at yoga. The closest I've been able to come is during a massage, when I sort of doze off. I wonder if hypnosis would get me to a similar state ...
I feel guilty when I "do nothing". Since the hubby so rarely gets an opportunity to "do nothing", I feel I should do all I can to help him....
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