What Does It Mean to Really, Truly Rest?
Rest is slow. You can’t feel rushed while you’re resting. That doesn’t mean that you can’t rest for an incredibly short period of time; it just means that, if you’re time-limited, you’ll need to have a timer. You cannot be in charge of the time as a resting person.
Medium • This Is How You Rest
And as Pang notes, modern science has now validated what the ancients knew: work “provided the means to live,” while rest “gave meaning to life.” (If that sounds a little Stoic, it is. As Pang demonstrates, work and rest are equally important; indeed, one without the other is almost unthinkable.)
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang • Rest
