Schall: Wasting Time

An afternoon coffee, Brian and Roger Eno’s “Mixing Colours”, and the book of Malachi did my soul well on Monday at Golden Gardens.

We know that the only time worth having is the time we waste on our friends. And our prayer is the time we ‘waste’ with God, the time we take to comprehend all that is given to us, all that is.
— ‘On Wasting the Best Years of Our Lives’, in On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing, p.106