Pseudocontemplatives

"Pseudocontemplatives ... see work as an obstacle to human development. They want to spend their hours lounging or drifting or gazing of 'processing.' They work only to sustain themselves and even then as little as possible. Pseudocontemplatives say that they are seeking God in mystery, but as a matter of fact they are actually missing the presence of God in the things that give meaning to life."

Joan Chittister OSB, from The Monastic Way edited by: Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, p. 67