A quotation from Samuel Johnson
> There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps in perpetual agitation and hurries him […]
"Take time away from busy-ness, time to be . . . it's something we all need for our spiritual health. . . . Listen to the silence. Stay open to the voice of the spirit." #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #self-care #idleness #slowliving 🌿 #slowreading #booksky 💙📚
For me, doing jigsaw puzzles is a great way to be "creatively idle"! a suggested reading list. #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #self-care #hygge #relax #idleness #slowliving 🌿 #puzzles
"Adam and Eve are not required to be super-human, super-virtuous, super-powerful. Their only 'requirement' is their ordinary existence, offered to their creator with gratitude and dependence." #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #self-care #hygge #relax #idleness #slowliving 🌿 #booksky 💙📚
"A life of splendid uselessness is a life well lived." #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #idleness #slowliving psyche.co/ideas/a-life...
Re-reading poetry is a good way to do nothing. #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #idleness #slowliving 🌿 #slowreading #booksky 💙📚 #poetry @kevinprufer.bsky.social
Never mind the ivory tower
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#idleness #waitinggame #doingnothing #publicspace #privatespace #ervinggoffman #humanbehaviour #streetphoto #streetphotography #streetleaks #zonestreets #ig_streets #wearethestreet #ourstreets #streetdreamsmag #storyofthestreet
"Much of what gives one's life meaning stems from accidents, interruptions, and serendipitous encounters: the 'off time' that a mechanistic view of experience seeks to eliminate." #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #self-care #idleness #slowliving #slowreading #amreading #booksky 💙📚
"Slowing down, letting your spare time expand, getting enough sleep, resting—is a radical act now, but it is essential." #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #self-care #relax #idleness #slowliving #slowreading #booksky 💙📚 #booknerd #reading #amreading
I #preach righteous #judgment. And I preach #overcoming #faith. In face of #God's #Holy & #Righteous #Judgment on people daring to justify themselves, I am #repentant of my #idleness to help my #neighbor as never before & the lash is hot. The sins are deep. Sin means error. We have greatly erred.
"The world is increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn't very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? ... To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act." #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #idleness
"[The poet's] job is, in a way, to refuse to do what others find useful, in order to leave a space for other things to happen" a #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #relax #idleness #slowliving #poetry
psyche.co/ideas/a-life... #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #self-care #hygge #relax #idleness #slowliving #slowreading #booksky
Here's a good guide for getting through winter. #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #self-care #hygge #relax #idleness #slowliving mindscapebysanskriti.substack.com/p/winter-a-m...
"It is only through the preserving somewhere within oneself a refusal to be "useful" in the way the world expects, to be "functional" or "productive" or "responsible," that prepares one to be a poet." #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #self-care #hygge #relax #idleness #slowliving #booksky 💙📚
#donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #hygge #idleness #slowliving #slowreading #booksky 💙📚 #books #bibliophile #booknerd
My finally category of favorite books for the year is what I call the "do nothing" category, otherwise known as anti-productivity or slowing down. #booksky 💙📚 #books #bibliophile #booknerd #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #self-care #hygge #relax #idleness #slowliving #slowreading
For the next installment in my best reads of 2025, we have the theology category. This little book was such a good read that I regularly go over the things I highlighted in it! #booksky 💙📚 #books #bibliophile #booknerd #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #self-care #hygge #relax #idleness
Christmas relaxation—drawing and coloring! #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #self-care #hygge #relax #idleness #slowliving #drawing #coloring
"The person striving for superiority is 'always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinion of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence from their judgment.'" #donothing #anti-productivity #idleness #slowliving #booksky 💙📚 #books #bibliophile #booknerd
"Leisure is not being slothful, idle, or frivolous. It is . . . simply being open to the wonder and marvel of the present . . . to choose to do something with no other aim than it refreshes the soul or to choose to do nothing at all." #donothing #anti-productivity #slowdown #idleness #booksky 💙📚
For me, doing nothing often means reading for hours. What does doing nothing mean for you? #donothing #anti-productivity #self-care #hygge #relax #idleness #slowliving #slowreading #booksky 💙📚 #books #bibliophile #booknerd
Winter hygge: YouTube tutorials for drawing cute little Christmas things! #donothing #anti-productivity #self-care #hygge #relax #idleness #slowliving #christmas #drawing
My Hygge Home book
Rather than falling into my typical winter depression in the Midwest this year, I am reframing my depression as a need to hibernate in winter—to embrace the concept of hygge! #hygge #donothing #anti-productivity #self-care #relax #idleness #slowliving #booksky 💙📚 #books #winter
“Imagine a world in which you stop trying to optimise every single moment, and instead spend your time on the things that truly matter. In short, you refuse to do everything in favour of, occasionally, doing nothing." #donothing #anti-productivity #self-care #relax #idleness #slowliving #booksky 💙📚
Right now doing nothing means going through the 2,000+ books on @thestorygraph.com that I have read and marking which ones I own. #donothing #booksky 💙📚 #idleness #anti-productivity #books #bibliophile #booknerd
The trick is figuring out how to really do nothing...
#virginiaWoolfQuote #idleness #creativity #writing
Cy Twombly: On mists of idleness (1960), currently On view at Museum Brandhorst
#cytwombly #brandhorst #munich #gay #art #drawing #idleness #fcf #cock #modernart #twombly #artmunich #bavaria #queer
He knew that conscious idleness brought more peace than all the days filled with effort.
#innerpeace #rest #idleness #writing #poem #poetry #photography #travel #venetum #travelphotography
