“The Master once referred to the Hindu notion that all creation is "leela" — God's play — and the universe is his playground. The aim of spirituality, he claimed, is to make all life play.
This seemed too frivolous for a puritanical visitor. "Is their no room then for work?"
"Of course there is. But work becomes spiritual only when it is transformed into play."”

—  Anthony de Mello

Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 96
("Leela" is more commonly spelled "Lila")

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