Confusion is symbolic of intelligence and growth...Osho Foundation

Confusion simply means you have started thinking, you have started being an individual on your own. Confusion is not a bad state at all. Every seeker has to start with confusion. It is good that you are feeling a little confused. That shows the beginning of intelligence, because unless you have some intelligence you cannot be confused. The heart never gets confused; it simply knows.
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CONFUSION MEANS: NEW FURNITURE IN THE HOUSE...
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Confusion comes only when something new comes. Whenever something new comes you have to readjust yourself. Confusion means you have brought new furniture in the house; now you have to rearrange everything. Confusion is part of life. Only dead people are never confused. Confusion simply says that you are still alive, you are still growing.
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DO YOUR ACTS PLAYFULLY...
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Whatsoever you are doing, do it playfully, don't be serious about it. And then there will be no question of confusion. Whenever you are confused, that simply shows that you have come against something in yourself which needs to be changed. You have come across a block - that block has to be dissolved. Somewhere you have some habit, some pattern, some structure that is creating trouble; that structure can be changed. Don't be worried!
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CONFUSION AND CERTAINITY ARE TOGETHER...
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When there is confusion, there can be certainty; when confusion disappears, certainty also disappears. It is the most beautiful moment in one's life when there is neither confusion nor certainty. One simply is, a mirror reflecting that which is, with no direction, going nowhere, with no idea of doing something, with no future, just utterly in the moment, tremendously in the moment.
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LIFE IS PARADOX ...
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Life has tremendous mystery in it because it is based on paradox. You are feeling confused because you have a certain fixed idea about how life should be - you don't allow life to be as it is. The confusion is of your own creation. The moment you accept that I don't know, all confusion will disappear, simply evaporate - just as dewdrops evaporate in the early morning sun, leaving no trace behind them.
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MEDITATION IS A STATE OF CLARITY, NOT A STATE OF MIND...
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Mind is confusion. Mind is never clear. It cannot be. Thoughts create clouds around you. A mist is created by them, and the clarity is lost. When thoughts disappear, when there are no more clouds around you, when you are in your simple beingnes, clarity happens. Meditation is clarity, absolute clarity of vision. You cannot think about it. You have to drop thinking. Let thoughts settle themselves. You just sit gazing at the wall, in a silent corner, relaxed, loose. You remain alert inside but the whole body moves into deep relaxation.....

Break out of man-made time...

Nityo Nityaanam, Chetanas Chetanaanaam
Katha Upanishad 2-2-13
"The timeless midst the transient, the awareness amidst the flux"
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Join back the little slivers of time that you have unwittingly split up with your own hands. Regain a continuing sense of the present. The so called 'present moment' isn't here now and gone the next instant. Flow with nature and discover for yourself if your 'present moment' can continue longer, through the hour, through the day. Allow that little fleeting instant to stretch out. Rejoin the fragments of your life that have been broken into little manageable bits of '10 AM, meeting with boss', '10.15 AM, meeting with client'.
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Have a 'whole day meeting with self" - no boss, no client, no computer, nothing to tell what time it is. Remove the scheduler, the task manager, the wrist watch, the little digital dial with its virtual ticks marking out an irreversible, irredeemable slice of your life that was here now this instant and gone forever the next. Reset your life, gain freedom from gadgets that have cut up your conception of time into little pieces. Let man made, machine made time fly out finally and completely, never to return again, at least not with the same manic force and strength.
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Ancient man measured time by the moon and seasons. For him time was something completely different from what it is now. You can call him primitive, call him out dated, but remember this - his present moment lasted much longer, he was more at peace, more in sync with the universe than we can ever be. Try and flow with rhythms of nature that our ancestors understood so well, and which no longer make sense to our chopped up world. There is time marked by day and night, a full twelve hours each - something you will understand only if you find yourself in a silent remote place with nothing to do except watch the sun rise and set, watch the stars wheel around and fade, and watch the sun rise again.
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There is time marked by phases of the moon, lasting twenty eight days froma full moon to a full moon. There is time marked by rhythms of seasons, and if you can ever learn to mark your time by this you will be a completely different person for the rest of your days. There are also rhythms beyond the solstice, almost beyond the ken of human grasp. There are visitations of comets, like Halley, which returns every 72 years. The human life span isn't long enought to mark time by this. Then there are longer rhythms way beyond human reference. There is the coming and going of the ice age, for instance, and even longer rhythms beyond the grasp of science.
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All time is, in a sense, mind. Understand this and change forever. The 'present moment' is the mind playing its little management game on you. Because the so called 'present' needn't be a moment at all, it could be an hour, a day or the rest of forever. The faster time flows, the more restles your mind is, and the smaller your 'moment' is. Soon a point is reached where the mind is so frayed by whirling events that the present 'moment' has gone completely.
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Life is then a daze where events are happening in a blur and there is no grasp of the now. Conversely, when you flow in deep meditation, time seems to stop completely. When you contemplate a verse from the Vedanta, the everyday mind fades away and deeper mind surfaces, bringing with it a different fare slower sense of time.
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If we choose to, all can always become now. If you can slip out of the clutches of man made time, and slip into the rhythms of time as nature made it out to be, you sense a deep expansion of the present moment. Understanding time completely means reaching a point of stillness where time disappears. At that point, the mind also disappears. Suddenly the Vedantic truth hits home. There is a part of us which is timeless. A part of us which caqn never be ravaged by time. Seek that timelessness amidst the transience. Feel that stillness in the storm....

Spirituality is not a shield to seek cover, but an aid to life......PAVAN CHOUDARY

CONFLICT SITUATIONS CANNOT BE RESOLVED WITH BLIND FAITH ALONE. INSTEAD, LEARN TO TACKLE YOUR INNER AND OUTER BATTLES HEAD-ON...

Something that has never undergone any change over a thousand years of man's evolution is human nature. The positive and negative traits of human beings have stayed the same.
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We still fight among each other, we are hungry for power and we fall prey to envy. But then, our spiritual nature has also not faded away. We still feel the need to connect to a higher power, as much as we did then, if not more. And spirituality is even more relevant today in a world that has been plagued by problems of a new kind - global warming, terrorism etc.
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Today's world requires an approach to problem solving that does not use spirituality as a shield. As a nation, we committed that mistake several hundred years ago. When the first set of invaders came to conquer us, our rulers chose to seek shelter in spiritualism. They assumed God would protect them when they were faced with marauding armies. But that did not happen. Instead, we were shackled in bondage by centuries of conquerors, choosing to plunder us time and again.
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This is where the principles of Chanakya, Kabir and Confucius come into play. Chanakya was very clear about his idea of statecraft. Any nation embarking on a blind pursuit of spirituality would end up in chaos and slavery.
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And Chanakya was aware of this truth. He advocated for balance - socially, politically, economically and spiritually. You cannot count on religion when a nation is being invaded. That specifically calls for military might. Even our scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita provide golden examples of how warriors are faced with predicaments when their human emotions come into conflict with their karma. But one has to fight his or her battles.
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On the other end, Kabir has a simple philosophy for life. For him spirituality was all about being compassionate. Anything apart from that was just misguided spiritualism.
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On a similar note, Confucius vouched for a system that proposed a gentle but firm approach to human relations, which considered the fallible nature of man.
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Having said that, spirituality is an essential nutrient for the human soul, without which man would be incomplete. Along with fulfilling one's humanly duties, one must take time out to connect with the spiritual being. It's the nectar that keeps humans ticking beyond time.
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Hotel Hijinx

A man in a hotel lobby accidentally bumps a woman in the breast with his elbow. Quite apologetic, he turns to her and says "If your heart is as soft as your breast, you will surely forgive me." She leans up to him and whispers "If your penis is as hard as your elbow, I'm in room 1221."