Idleness is a lost art

by rondezvousrenaissance

To the soul searchers: Mastering the art & science of doing nothing ‘for a while’ will lead to introspection, retrospection and investigative progression of our conscious and unconscious minds.

Not to be mistaken with apathy but a true way of being ‘for a while’ of self discovery, soul searching, mending and reconnecting the links of emotional, mental, physical and spiritual bonds that this world floods with busyness, time, money and self-preservation. Paradoxically, we become busy to not be idle, so we can’t feel and become numb, that requires a certain idle healing, to come full circle to empower us to become busy enablers yet again.

Idle + Fun + Daydreaming = Healing

-R

“I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spent in the most profound activity. Whether our actions themselves, even if they do not take place until later, are nothing more than the last reverberations of a vast movement that occurs within us during idle days.

In any case, it is very important to be idle with confidence, with devotion, possibly even with joy. The days when even our hands do not stir are so exceptionally quiet that it is hardly possible to raise them without hearing a whole lot.”

—Rainer Maria Rilke