Sacred Idleness
Soul Food: a Celebration of Sacred Idleness Soul Food is a series of blue glass plates celebrating various writer’s quotes on the theme of taking time in your day to just be, and that this period of Sacred Idleness is valid and important. George Macdonald, the 19th century Scottish poet and minister, wrote wonderfully about the idea of Sacred Idleness. His quote, along with other writings of a similar sentiment, is served up to digest and savour. Soul Food seeks to highlight the idea of daily contemplation and champion the importance of allowing time for idleness in the everyday. Time spent on a daily basis away from work may delight, energize, calm or inspire us, unfortunately it is often forgotten or not considered a worthy priority.
You do not need to leave your room . . . Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer 1883 – 1924
Work is not always required of us. There is such a thing as Sacred Idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
George MacDonald
Scottish Poet and Minister 1824 – 1903