Any time we feel ourselves getting bored or "up tight" because we feel our time is being wasted, we can remember that what is really wasting our time -- and our soul's possibility to develop -- is this secret negative state we are now identified with. Shake yourself awake, and drop the known irritation or boredom in favor of being a witness to the life around you. "Watch, for ye know not when."

Boredom is the "natural" effect of the thought nature having begun to exhaust its own content. What this means to us is that when we are bored with life, it is because we have at last begun to outgrow what our thought-life can provide for us. Your suspicion about not trying to answer it is correct. Stay in the middle of this condition. It may be appropriate or not to make changes, but wait until it is quite clear to you that what you newly intend is not part of the old line of your life.

There may be many reasons for boredom with your work, but you should never experience boredom in your inner work. Learn to use your situation instead of mechanically resisting it. Boredom is nothing other than thought gazing at thought and telling itself what it sees. Set inner tasks for yourself and watch the boredom disappear.