“We are more likely to love our work when we see it as play.”

Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

Source: Reflected in You

The Abolition of Work (1985)
Context: No one can say what would result from unleashing the creative power stultified by work. Anything can happen. The tiresome debater's problem of freedom vs. necessity, with its theological overtones, resolves itself practically once the production of use-values is co-extensive with the consumption of delightful play activity. Life will become a game, or rather many games, but not—as it is now — a zero/sum game. An optimal sexual encounter is the paradigm of productive play. The participants potentiate each other's pleasures, nobody keeps score, and everybody wins. The more you give, the more you get. In the ludic life, the best of sex will diffuse into the better part of daily life. Generalized play leads to the libidinization of life. Sex, in turn, can become less urgent and desperate, more playful.
If we play our cards right, we can all get more out of life than we put into it; but only if we play for keeps.
No one should ever work.
Workers of the world... relax! </center

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

2013, Brandenburg Gate Speech (June 2013)

Section 1.3
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)

"The Prophet's Hands"
The Prophet's Hands (2003)

The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 74

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture