as children, we learn new competencies through play like…

Page 250 as children, we learn new competencies through play like building a brick castle, and learning about balance and gravity. However, when we become adults, we have a tendency to dismiss such play as childish and lose the ability to use it. Play in reality is a serious business, it means opening oneself up to new possibilities, but requires being prepared to face and certainty and vulnerability as part of the process of learning.

— from Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion) · Changing gear by hall and stokes

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Tend all the areas of a life — love, friendship, health, work, mind, spirit, family — rather than letting one swallow the rest. Take play seriously; as adults we dismiss it as childish and lose a real source of aliveness, when in truth play means opening yourself to new possibility. Contentment, it turns out, comes not from having everything but from a well-rounded life — try to have everything and you'll end up with nothing, because where would you even put it? […] Feed a passion, and let it serve a purpose. Discover, develop, deepen — and aim it at contributing to others. Keep your balance by moving. Tend every area of life and take play seriously. Don't fix on the flaw. Refuse the missing-piece habit and the comparison habit; swat the automatic negative thoughts. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)

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