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What are your beliefs around work? Do you believe it's necessary to work hard to earn a living? No pain, no gain? Do you believe women's work is never done? That play is a waste of time?
While there are merits to the work ethic, over-work takes a serious toll on the quality of our lives. Our ability to contribute to life requires us to have a sense of balance, joy, playfulness, time to stop and smell the flowers.
"Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary."
-- Matthew Fox
-- Matthew Fox
What are your beliefs around work? Do you believe it's necessary to work hard to earn a living? No pain, no gain? Do you believe women's work is never done? That play is a waste of time?
While there are merits to the work ethic, over-work takes a serious toll on the quality of our lives. Our ability to contribute to life requires us to have a sense of balance, joy, playfulness, time to stop and smell the flowers.
"Learning to let go of the ways we inadvertently and unconsciously contribute to our own pain is the key to finding radiant physical and emotional health."
-- Ingrid Bacci
-- Ingrid Bacci
"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious."
-- Samuel Butler
-- Samuel Butler
"The true object of all human life is play."
-- G.K. Chesterton
-- G.K. Chesterton
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