We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences. That takes for granted that there's not fun or play to be found in the work itself.

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

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train yourself to be able to find it almost anywhere in almost anything.

Any phrase that suggests play is this domain that's the opposite of work, or the thing that you do when you're done working, should trouble us. Because it means that play is always relegated to the exhaust of life. It's the thing that you do after you do the important stuff, it's what you do on your own time.

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

This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.