It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.
Interpretation
Taking breaks from our daily lives allows us to gain perspective and enhance our productivity.
This quote emphasizes the importance of stepping back from the hectic pace of everyday life in order to regain perspective. By disconnecting and reflecting, we can better understand our experiences and make more thoughtful decisions, which ultimately leads to increased productivity and clarity.
In practice
Using this quote in a motivational speech about work-life balance.
Quitting, for me, means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not because something doesn’t agree with you, but because you don’t agree with something. It’s not a complaint, in other words, but a positive choice, and not a stop in one’s journey, but a step in a better direction. Quitting-whether a job or a habit-means taking a turn so as to be sure you’re still moving in the direction of your dreams.
I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel a lot, and now there are other different, invisible trains that are more interesting to me.
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.
I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article I've written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn't want or need, not all I did.
The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.
You do not lose your value or preciousness when you grow to be a adult. You are still that miraculous creation. You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.
Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.
You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.
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