Re "If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.":
That's OK but needs to be balanced by this quote from Voltaire: "Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote : I was using "the google" for something else, and stumbled on these quotes about uselessness: I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say. Geronimo (Apache Chief) It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. Jose Rizal (Filipino nationalist, novelist, poet, ophthalmologist, journalist, and revolutionary, whose execution led to the end of Spain’s rule) The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip. Wassily Kandinsky (Russian painter) If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. Lin Yutang (Chinese writer) If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled. Ramakrishna (Indian mystic)
