
Sleep Deprived.

For those whose lives are relentlessly structured, there can be a deep exhaustion in the body which is barely satisfied by a full night’s sleep. That exhaustion is less of a need for rest than it is the bone-deep dispiritedness that comes from our slavery to schedules and directedness. In such cases, it’s best to follow the exhaustion, despite how
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In this way Ones can, with care, experience the type of rest that the poet David Whyte describes: “Rest is a conversation between what we love to do and how we love to be.”
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A Blessing For One Who Is Exhausted, By John O'Donohue | DailyGood
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Sabbath and the Art of Rest
youtube.comRest is important in the age of automation because it demands creativity from those that don’t want to live a mechanical and predetermined life. Rest is the driving force behind your mind’s creative ability. Humans aren’t robots, yet most of our lives are spent in an unconscious repetition of tasks that are graded by time spent rather than results.
Dan Koe • The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future
rest is an essential prerequisite to healthy sleep and dreams, to natural night consciousness.