Every night, we do something rather extraordinary. We lie down, close our eyes and surrender consciousness. For the next several hours, we stop keeping watch. We stop making decisions. The unfinished business of the day remains unfinished. Whatever we have been worrying about will have to wait.
There are mornings when eight hours of sleep doesn't seem to have done the job. The body has been in bed all night, but the mind apparently worked the late shift—sorting through yesterday, rehearsing tomorrow, returning to conversations that ended years ago. Sleep and rest, it
The Still Point Rest in later life is not idleness—it’s presence. It is the gentle permission to stop pushing, to loosen the jaw and the schedule, and to remember that being is enough. In rest, we return to ourselves. In earlier years, rest can feel like a
🛏️ Rest in Later Life: Renewal for Body, Mind, and Spirit Rest in later life is not just about sleep. It is about renewal, recovery, and rhythm. For decades, many of us treated rest as an afterthought, squeezed between deadlines and duties. Now we discover it