The following excerpt is from the meditation “Work and Rest are one Entity” from Thurman’s Meditations of the Heart.
We know that we cannot keep our bodies going if we do not refuel by eating and by sleeping. Over and over again, we provide for a change of pace in our life routine to the end that we shall not burn out or rust out. A commonplace adage that expresses one facet of the problem is: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” A music score that provides for no rests, no devaluation of whole notes, would be unbearable at long last. Here we are face to face with a life principle. One man has designated it as a principle of alternation. Even casual reflection would lead one to recognize that a very urgent function of the quiet time is to provide a breather for the spirit, opportunity for catching up, reorganizing and re-evaluating the endless activities in which we are involved daily and hourly.
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Careful provision must be made for rest, for quiet, for prayer and for renewal.
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When we function, we are enjoined to function wholly, bringing into the deeds the wisdom and the insight of the quiet and the pause. When we rest we are enjoined to rest wholly, bringing into the quiet time the sense of doing and participating in the activities that claim our energies. “The most inward man lives his life in these two ways: namely, in work and in rest.”