Heart: Busy

From: Remember The Sabbath, by Wayne Muller, at http://www.spiritwalk.org/muller.htm#writings:

As Brother David Steidl-Rast reminds us, the Chinese pictograph for "busy" is composed of two characters:
heart and killing.

THOMAS MERTON:

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence...
[and that is] activism and overwork. The rush and
pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most
common form, of its innate violence.

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude
of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many
demands, to commit oneself to too many projects,
to want to help everyone in everything, is to
succumb to violence.

The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work
for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for
peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work,
because it kills the root of inner wisdom which make
work fruitful.