Plotinus on Play

I came across this quote from Plotinus in my reading today:

Suppose we said, playing at first before we set out to be serious, that all things aspire to contemplation, and direct their gaze to this end.... Then are we now contemplating as we play? Yes, we and all who play are doing this, or at any rate this is what they aspire to as they play. And it is likely that, whether a chlid or a man is playing or being serious, one plays and the other is serious for the sake of contemplation, and every action is a serious effort towards contemplation; compulsory action drags contemplation more towards the outer world, and what we call voluntary, less, but, all the same, voluntary action, too, springs from the desire of contemplation. - Enneads III.8.1