My dear,
Know that doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
For while you are doing nothing you at least recognize that nothing is being accomplished.
While being busy – doing nothing, showers upon you the delusion that you are actually accomplishing something. Being busy – doing nothing, allows you the leeway to say “I am busy,” when in reality you’re not, you’re just moving around frantically.
Being busy doing nothing is comparable to moving without a purpose.
Sure, you are expanding a great deal of energy, but for what?
Stop being busy my dear.
Falsely yours,
Lao Tzu
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