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Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.

Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

Sleep is the best meditation.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.