Tip-Off #66 - Leisure

"If you are losing your leisure, look out! -- It may be you are losing your soul." - Virginia Woolf

Mar 16, 2023

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The Novel Reader, 1888 - Vincent van Gogh — Vincent van Gogh 1888 - The Novel Reader - oil, canvas 73 x 92 cm

The Greek word for leisure is the origin of the Latin scola, from which we get "school." For the Greeks, leisure was the time to seek the truth and understand the self. Contemplation and reflection were an expression of freedom and not being occupied with other commitments.

Aristotle called…

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