Sublime

Nous anticipons sans cesse nos périodes de repos. Pourtant, il ne peut certainement s’agir que du repos trouvé dans une activité saine et absorbante. Ce doit être un repos sans rouille. Qu’est donc le loisir, sinon l’occasion d’une action plus complète et entière ? Nos énergies aspirent à l’exercice. Le temps consacré à nos devoirs est autant de

For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many. The

The Reitoff principle is the idea that we should grant ourselves permission to write off a day and intentionally step away from achieving anything. For many of us, the challenge of rest lies in the act of stepping back from the things we think we should be doing. We’re conditioned to value self-control, grit and persistence. We equate rest with