When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling. - Arianna Huffington

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. — RABINDRANATH TAGORE

When a child loses confidence in his or her creativity, the impact can be profound. People start to separate the world into those who are creative and those who are not. They come to see these categories as fixed, forgetting that they too once loved to draw and tell imaginative stories. Too often they opt out of being creative.

Montaigne: “To practice death is to practice freedom.71 A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.” Being a slave to our job and our status in the world makes it much harder to put our day behind us and surrender to sleep.