I love this whole passage from C.H. Spurgeon’s Lectures to My Students. So often resting has felt wasteful to me, the need to sleep in order to be efficient seems an oxymoron. But the truth is:
“Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.” // As farmers we feel the cycle of the earth deeply, and it resonates. “Earth keeps the Sabbath of the wintry months, and man… must rest or faint; must recruit his vigor or grow prematurely old. It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run we shall do more by sometimes doing less.”

Less really can be more.