"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
John Lubbock
“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.” Maya Angelou
“Every now and then, go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.” Leonardo da Vinci
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answers.” William Burroughs
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” Anne Lamott
“It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.” Brene Brown
“If you’re tired, learn to rest not quit.” Unknown
Playful Rest
January and February Series
February 13, 2022 • Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell
Joyful Oneness
February 6, 2022 • Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell
"The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.” Muhammad Yunus “A person experiences life as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion to find the reality of Oneness.” Albert Einstein “If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.” Alan Watts “Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love.” Eckhart Tolle “Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.” David Fontana “Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.” Alan Watts “…the cosmos is also within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way that the cosmos can know itself.” Carl Sagan
Cosmic Swarming
January 30, 2022 • Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell
“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” Dorothy Parker “Creativity is not a mood. Creativity is not a gift. It’s the very nature of God inside of you.” Dan McCollam “Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.” Julia Cameron “The ability to see the order in chaos is called creativity.” Simon Sinek “Chaos is the first step in the creative process.” Jill Bolte Taylor “If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.” Patricia McCormick “Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.” Chuck Palahniuk “Chaos is the only thing that honestly wants you to grow. The only friend who really helps you be creative.” Dan Wieden “In all chaos, there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” Carl Jung
Understanding and Will
January 23, 2022 • Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell
“An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.” Bryant H. McGill “Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.” Charles Kettering “What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.” Alice Walker “The willingness to do creates the ability to do.” Peter McWilliams “The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.” Brian Herbert "The fourth spiritual law of success is the Law of Least Effort. This law is based on the fact that nature’s intelligence functions with effortless ease and abandoned carefulness.” Deepak Chopra “There is only one thing required to change your life: willingness.” Unknown