I read this and was touched, I am not particularly religious, at least not formally, yet as I usually am when reading Dr. Sachs writings, it spoke to me.
Years ago when I had a boat on City Island (a small island off the coast of the Bronx, that then was mostly Marinas and boat clubs and boat yards) Dr. Sachs had a house there, and I occasionally would see him walking around, or enjoying the waterfront, once or twice even got to say hi to him. I think the concept of a quiet day, when you don’t have to do things, when you can simply sit back and smell the roses, is a very valuable thing, I sometimes wonder if the concept of the sabbath and the ideas of loving others were pulled out of religion and made the tenets of a very simple faith, if we would live better for it…anyway, just wanted to share this.