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Work, Rest, and Meaning
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Aug 30, 2026
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Research shows a strong connection between enjoying our work and enjoying life itself. Yet many of us feel disengaged at work and depleted by life. How can we find real worth in our jobs—and practice true rest when the lines between our personal and professional lives are increasingly blurred?
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So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.
A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God.
And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Fools fold their hands
and ruin themselves.
Better one handful with tranquillity
than two handfuls with toil
and chasing after the wind.