Other people can’t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don’t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.
Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.
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Allan Lokos
Patience is a power unto itself.
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Robyn Wideman
Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
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Anne Lamott
I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will...
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Anne Lamott
The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.
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Leo Tolstoy
More Quotes By Lama Surya Das
The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us–it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.
I believe that this is the time to become warriors for peace and dialogue, not warmongers or mere worriers.
When we ground ourselves in the present moment, we spontaneously connect better with others. We become more responsive and less reactive, listening more deeply and speaking with greater clarity.
Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.
Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may be. One’s own conscience remains the ultimate arbiter.
