Sleep

This morning I awoke from a really deep sleep. I feel glued back together and centered. After a few nights of surfacey sleep I am remembering why it is so important for me not to drink black tea late in the day. It's tempting because tea tastes good after a swim but then it's not a replenishing sleep, it's a noisy chattering sleep.

"Sleep is medicine."
-Italian Proverb

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
-John Steinbeck

"Sleep is the best meditation."
-Dalai Lama

"There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled."
-Edward Lucas

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."
-Leonardo da Vinci