Holiness and play always tend to overlap. So do poetic imagination and faith.*
(Johan Huizinga)
And in all the seriousness of truth, listen: without It a human being cannot live. But whoever lives only with that is not human.**
(Martin Buber)
I get things wrong a lot of the time.
I need to admit it. After that, I need to get back into the game that is life and it takes playfulness rather than seriousness to try again, to reconnect to the story that I want to live rather than how I messed things up. The universe wants us to get on and play, not to dwell on the bad but to play the good game.
(*From Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens.)
(**From Martin Buber’s I and Thou.)