Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

You allow yourself to discover the things that are already there when you play.

I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you.

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.

You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously at things and asking what is possible, what can be done with them, what new ideas might emerge?

You don't want to be told, "Hey, do whatever you want." That's what we think of when we think of play. It's the thing where you get to do whatever you come up with in your own mind, all bets are off, there's no boundaries.

God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.