Sleep is not a respite from life, but
a deeper immersion into it.

"Too often, we think of sleep as time subtracted from life. But this is only the case if we limit our definition of life to include only the waking hours. Hugh Prather taught that life is lived in the pauses, not the events. Sleep is certainly among the most poignant of such pauses. The incomparable respite and rejuvenation offered us in sleep is not a subtraction from but is an enhancement of life."