Monday, May 5, 2014

Via Daily Dharma


The Pleasure of Foolishness | May 5, 2014

Being the fool is not the same as acting the fool: you can’t decide to be playful, or foolish, for an hour a day, as if it were yet another task to add to your campaign of self-improvement. It’s rather the result of a relaxation of the rules and goals that you normally run your life by. The pleasure of foolishness lies in large part in the absence of self-consciousness; in the self-forgetting that comes in a moment of abandon. 
 
—Roger Housden, “A Fool’s Bargain”