📫 Sleep & Freedom – Weekend Words #056

Powerful reminders for a smarter weekend

October 18, 2025

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Happy Saturday. Your weekend words are: sleep and freedom.

“The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life. The leading causes of disease and death in developed nations—diseases that are crippling health-care systems, such as heart disease, obesity, dementia, diabetes, and cancer—all have recognized causal links to a lack of sleep.”

—Dr. Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep

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“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything—anger, anxiety, or possessions—we cannot be free.”

More from the author in our word of the week: Sati

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