How to Really Know Someone. Really.
to play is divine
”You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
~ Plato
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Might just be my quote of the week/month/year. Love.
Love it
Yeah. So true. Let's all play. for love.
Lovely
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This is such a great quote…
This is SO true. My dogs taught me this.
I was thinking the same thing!
yum
true…lovely post reminds me of Katharine Hepburn…~ If you obey all the rules, you’ll miss all the fun ~
Silly, but I seem to have forgotten how to play in my adulthood. In adulthood life is so serious, contrived from expectations, driven by insecurity and fear. How do I start to play?
Forget about responsibility… that is to find an activity that you can leave your responsibilities behind for a while ! Think back… what did you used to do that brought you fun-filled joy ?
You won't be able to spend all your time in PLAY with your partner, so unless you learn how to converse meaningfully as an adult, you probably won't build an enduring partnership – and you will always be hoping for play instead, because your adult relationship will feel more like a burden
Frankly, I can play with just about ANYONE for an hour. And thenI will have learned what they are like to PLAY with.
Perhaps the need for play – to recapture a sense of pure child-like spontaneity – reflects, in part, a failure to acquire a meaningful way of communicating verbally.
Play can be great fun – but it's also at times yet another distraction from being present as an adult?
I can also learn a lot about someone if I pray and meditate with them for an hour.
By the way, Plato never married, and he died while attending a wedding feast – someone else's. Jus sayin'!
You might be correct. But I'm going to give Plato the benefit of the doubt.
I think people know they can't spend all of their time playing and I don't think they expect to do so. I think it simply implies that play is an important part of any relationship and it creates a space that is safe for people to be more openly themselves and therefore people can get to know each other very well. Personally, I've noticed that I can get to know someone really well simply by the way they play a game of cards.
but who is most fun to play with and talk to!
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Yes, well, he was Plato after all. He wrote a couple of minor books, I think? Cheers, Man.
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Yes and yes!
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Aw Yeah! Taking this quote and using often! It's worth putting on the wall, above the kitchen sink and on a pillow.
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Absolute truth!!! Play Play and more Play!
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Great quote, and it's true. Playing with each other brings out the child-like fun that we long for.
When I become absolutely stuck in trying to "figure it out," the next move is naturally play. There's nowhere else the energy can go other than spontaneity, which feels light. For me, unfortunately, it seems I have to get stuck to see this. However, what a relief when the play sweeps in. Delightful! Lila fo' sho'!
Great quote – except it wasn't Plato especially as seeing how he was a great believer int eh dialectic…
Gah! Typos from he!!
While I do appreciate the sentiment of this interpretation, if you read the entire context from which this quote was taken, it's pretty clear Plato was talking about gambling.
REALLY? Come on…a little simple, eh? Beautiful pic, but does it really speak to most people, without some words?
Perfect. I am in a long distance relationship. One thing we always notice: if it has been more than six weeks since we have seen one another, any serious topic becomes warped and strained. We talk for two hours every night…but for the week or two we are tense from absence, we talk playfully. It makes the waiting tolerable and prevents serious subjects from being twisted into a lonely, desperate mess.