Leisure Redefined

"But the gods, taking pity on mankind, born to work, laid down the succesion of recurring Feasts to restore them from their fatigue, and gave them the Muses and Apollo their leader and Dionysus , as companion in their Feasts, so that nourishing themselves in festive companionship with the gods, they should again stand upright and erect." - Plato

"Be still and know that I am God." - Psalms 46:10

True leisure allows for contemplation, where, when looking at a rose in bud, one is rested and quickened as though by a dreamless sleep. Leisure is not idleness, but an attitude of the mind and a condition of the soul that fosters receptivity to both physical and spiritual realities. - Josef Pieper, Leisure- the Basis of Culture

A moment of leisure can be found even in the middle of a ballgame.