“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“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."”
Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 96
("Leela" is more commonly spelled "Lila")
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