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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
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)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)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!
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)I stole it fair and square! 👌