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Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 08:52 AM Oct 2014

The Modern Violence of Over-work

Thomas Merton — Trappist monk, gifted writer, social critic, and spiritual virtuoso — has inspired many people. I'm one of them.

Merton wrote these incisive words more than fifty years ago, but they are no less true today than when he wrote them.

"There is a pervasive form of modern violence to which the idealist...most easily succumbs: activism and over-work. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence.

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence.

http://www.onbeing.org/blog/the-modern-violence-of-over-work/6943

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The Modern Violence of Over-work (Original Post) Sherman A1 Oct 2014 OP
There is a virtue in doing nothing . upaloopa Oct 2014 #1
Indeed there is Sherman A1 Oct 2014 #2
I would like to adopt that saying upaloopa Oct 2014 #3
Feel free! Sherman A1 Oct 2014 #4

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
1. There is a virtue in doing nothing .
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 09:14 AM
Oct 2014

I will retire in 19 months. I will be 70. People ask me what am I going to do then. I tell them I don't have a plan for that time. After working since I was 10 yrs old I want to do nothing. That is I want to wake up and decide if I want to achieve anything that day or not. I am going to enjoy that.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
2. Indeed there is
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 11:16 AM
Oct 2014

I recall a plaque my charming ex-wife had in one room that said "time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time."

Best on your retirement!

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