Play is one of our deepest instincts most clearly seen in children…it involves our total attention as we are fully alive in the “now”…some of our most cherished experiences in childhood are the joy and fun of play…but as we get older and influenced by social conditioning the preciousness of play is diminished to largely a recreational activity.
Little attention is given to the possibility of play being a life style…but it can be the essence of a full and rich life by the development of continuous higher levels of play…it is what Joseph Campbell describes as “follow your bliss”…and it gives life an authentic meaning but unfortunately with anything less is to miss the real fun of life..
Life must be lived as play.~~Plato
Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.~~Abraham Maslow
The true object of all human life is play.~~G. K. Chesterton
People tend to forget that play is serious.~~David Hockney
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.~~Heraclitus
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.~~Plato
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.~~Carl Jung
The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.~~Brian Sutton-Smith
Play is training for the unexpected.~~Marc Bekoff
Those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose the healing capacity for humor.~~Stuart Brown, M.D.
