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Playfulness means being able to explore and to do things, for the sheer delight of doing them. It means relaxing, being spontaneous, and allowing a situation to carry you where it will. When we have a playful attitude, learning and discovery are fun, and even hard work can fly by.


Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that playfulness actually accomplishes things! When children play, they become smarter because new neuron connections are formed in their brains. Play has been described as the work of childhood, the place where the greatest learning occurs. Great scientists and spiritual leaders often are similarly playful.


Playfulness reduces stress, and brightens the atmosphere. It engages people to do things that make them more connected with other people. It makes people happy.

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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

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To be as wise as the Zen master, be as foolish.

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The Covert Comic
The Covert Comic
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Viewed on January 7, 2011
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Flies escape from the mouth that says "A closed mouth gathers no flies".

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The Covert Comic
The Covert Comic
"The Covert Comic"
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Viewed on February 8, 2013
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The guy who invented the wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three was a genius!

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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

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Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

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The Ascent of Humanity
by Charles Eisenstein
Page Chapter 7
http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/chapter7-7.php
Contribution #6405


Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.

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TarovanPrasad
http://www.chinmayamission.com
Contribution #5018


You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish

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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

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Don't ever let your mind keep you from having a good time.

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Gratitude Cafe Tour 2009
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Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem; dulce est desipere in loco.)

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You can't stay mad at someone who makes you laugh.

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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

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Play builds the kind of free-and-easy, try-it-out, do-it-yourself character that our future needs. We must become more self-conscious and more explicit in our praise and reinforcement as children use unstructured play materials: “That’s good. You use your own ideas....” “That’s good. You did it your way....” “That’s good. You thought it all out yourself.

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Hymes, Jr., James L.
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #451


There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

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Edward Hoagland
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #450