“Time is a luxury. And unlike other luxuries, we have more than enough of it. Yet we are always doing what we don’t need to be doing now. Thus, we discard large nuggets of this great potential comfort called time.
“The solution is to luxuriate. Indulge yourself in time. Heap it on every instant.
“Notice that the moment we get in a rush, we lose our peace. For example, we love to start projects late in the day, resulting in a rush to get to bed. That sense of rush is taken not only into sleep; there is often a residue of rush felt when we awake.
“We also love to cut it short in the morning instead of giving ourselves more than enough time to get ready. And what does it mean to ‘get ready’? It entails washing, grooming, and dressing our bodies. Our goal is not really to get ready but to look ready.
“But are we ready? Is our mind ready? Did we even look at the state of our mind as long as we looked in the mirror? No, we say, we don’t have time for a moment of mental preparation. We’ll make sure that both shoes are on, but we know not the direction we want to walk.
“We got to work but no in peace. We got to the meeting but not in peace. We ran errands but not in peace. And throughout the day we 'saved' time, for that was our unacknowledged goal. The unasked question was, for what did we save it?
“Notice that much of the time we don’t even get through a checkout line happily — because we decide beforehand how much time it should take for our line to move. In one activity after another, we become our own self-imposed thief. We do save time, but we rob ourselves of peace.”
