Wasting Time

In the mailbox, gathered notes from the past several days…

(T)he reward for all the virtues lies in the virtues themselves...I am grateful, not because it profits me, but because it (being grateful) pleases me. – Seneca

...confusion causes our questions and prompts us to wake up. – Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. – Bertrand Russell, who's birthday was celebrated yesterday.

From this perspective, confusion is a gift, a teacher on our path, a prompt for our gratitude. Confusion shifts our attention to the present moment where all answers are found.

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. – Mary Oliver in Upstream. Penguin Press; First Edition (October 11, 2016).