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Day 4 - #Leisure #BeautifulWords

leisure noun
lei·​sure | \ ˈlē-zhər , ˈle-, ˈlā- \
Definition of leisure
1 : freedom provided by the cessation of activities
especially : time free from work or duties
increase of leisure, diminution of hustle are the ends to be sought
— Bertrand Russell
at leisure or at one's leisure
: in one's leisure time : at one's convenience
read the book at her leisure

Day 8 - #Leisure #LetsTravelJuly

#WinterWonderland Day 19: Apparently, this book was published in #December1963. Ya gotta love Google; She knows everything. Kinda like Janet from A Good Place - or is it the other way around? 😭😂 This looks like a super dense book I will probably not read - unless required for school. #Truth

I tried the Google Arts app. It went well.

😂🙄😂 #same

#artface

Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...

The question is... can man develop to the full as a functionary and a "worker" and nothing else; can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workaday existence? Stated differently and translated back into our terms: is there such a thing as a liberal art?

The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.

Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.

The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing.

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.