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During my second 初詣 (New Year prayer) in Japan, I was surprised to see a group of people in business attire, waiting for their turn to offer prayers at Meguro Fudosan.

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He noted that the ancient Greek translation for “work” was literally “not‑at‑leisure.” In Aristotle’s own words, “we are not‑at‑leisure in order to be‑at‑leisure.” Now, this is flipped. We work to earn time off and see leisure as a break from work. Pieper pointed out that people “mistake leisure for idleness, and work for creativity.”

Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life

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Ryokan • Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan

Aristotle argued that true leisure—by which he meant self-reflection and philosophical contemplation—was among the very highest of virtues because it was worth choosing for its own sake, whereas other virtues, like courage in war, or noble behavior in government, were virtuous only because they led to something else. The Latin word for business, ne... See more

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

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Nietzsche describes 3 modern vices https://t.co/2SFg7fTOB0

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Then the small trees that got chopped down today wouldn’t go to waste. They added nutrients to the soil and could even prevent landslides. I pondered these things as I followed Iwao back up the slope.

Juliet Winters Carpenter • The Easy Life in Kamusari

Le trait marquant des Plassaert est l’avarice, une avarice méthodique et organisée, dont il leur arrive même de se glorifier :

Georges Perec • La vie mode d'emploi (Littérature Française) (French Edition)

A man without a calling thus lacks the systematic, methodical character which is, as we have seen, demanded by worldly asceticism.

Max Weber • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Impulsive enjoyment of life, which leads away both from work in a calling and from religion, was as such the enemy of rational asceticism, whether in the form of seigneurial sports, or the enjoyment of the dance-hall or the public-house of the common man.