UNDERSTANDING BOREDOM

By Sri Harold Klemp

My daughter knows better than to ever tell me she’s bored. I’ve told her, “There is always something to do, or life wouldn’t have placed you where you are, so don’t tell me you’re bored. It means you haven’t looked inside deeply enough to figure out what to do with yourself right now.”

One day she forgot. She was just lounging on the couch when she said, “Dad, I’m bored”—and for some reason she fell right off the couch. From down on the floor, she looked up at me and said, “Dad, I’m not bored anymore.”

The saying as given in the Bible is, “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Thoughts are things, and it’s important to keep our thoughts of a spiritual nature, where we put our attention on living a life which is a clear step toward growth. In whatever we do, are we growing? Are we learning? Are we enjoying this lifetime while we have our strength and our health?

The idea is, we become what we think. We live our lives according to our spiritual understanding of life.

—Sri Harold Klemp, How to Find God, pp. 302–3