A Musing Table: "Life of Leisure"

More thoughts on home as cloister. This qoute is from Brother David Steindl-Rast O.S.B....

Leisure is not the opposite of work; we should be able to work in leisure... Leisure introduces into every activity an element of play, an element of doing whatever it be also for its own sake, not only to get it done. Thus leisure provides the climate in which we can be open for meaning. Contemplative life as a form of life molded by a radical search for meaning will necessarily be a life of leisure, ascetical leisure....

The leisure of which we are speaking is not the privilege of those who have time, but the virtue of those who take time...To live leisurely means to celebrate every moment of life.

(First image unknown, second image by Melissa Howard of Those Northern Skies)