Uniquely among emotional pains–or so it seems to me at this moment before I drink my first coffee–confusion is avoidable through a simple expedient: unwarranted assumptions and unwarranted confidence in those assumptions.
Don’t want to feel confused? Just assume you are always right, or at least right, here, 100%, beyond any possibility of doubt.
It is perhaps the case that much of human misery comes from the simplicity of this exercise.
I am feeling confusion in my dreams. Where most of my dreams before were running, fighting, or enduring, now no one is attacking me. I am on journeys, with people I have known, in places which are unfamiliar, and which change spontaneously in strange ways.
If I have not said this before, though, let me say it now: the path to wisdom leads straight through confusion.
If it is completely comfortable, completely easy, it is not the right path.