God in My Everything: How an Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People Enjoy God

In addition to our drive to build a better world, we also live in a time when productivity and impact feed the lies we believe about ourselves. The constant pressure to do more, to fill up our schedules, to work harder. But we have to stop the busyness or we will be stopped by burnout and exhaustion. Stillness teaches us restraint, and in restraint

“His commitment to the Sabbath, its utter peacefulness and remoteness from worldly concerns, would have trumped even a Nobel.” The essay – titled “Sabbath,” published in the New York Times, August 14, 2015, and included in the collection Gratitude (Knopf) – was Sacks’s

The main point is always the opportunity to look at the world at a slower pace, to observe, to sense, to appreciate, and, most of all, to share leisurely, agendaless conversation with those we love. 1.

These slowdown practices must be justified by something beyond themselves.