"Downtime enables not only our creativity and our need for rest. It also enables the formation and maintenance of our deep sense of being and identity. ... Without downtime, we might not physically die, but we will die psychologically, emotionally, spiritually. In downtime, not only are we making sense of the events of the day, we are making sense of our lives."
–– Alan Lightman (b. 1948), American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur
Source: Alan Lightman. In Praise of Wasting Time. New York: TED Books, Simon and Schuster, 2018; p. 67-8.
via: Commonplace Book 2022, 2022, p. 61.
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