I know many people who say they haven't got time for patience. I used be one of them. There was a time when I felt high levels of stress if I was forced to wait. Circumstances always got the best of me!
Fortunately, I grew up in a spiritual community, where I learned that patience is a virtue and that we have to ask for more of it in order to be able to cultivate it.
Well, we all know what happens when we ask for patience, right? We get to LEARN it and that really does take time. Years teach patience, but so do moments.
How to get the most out of a moment? Look at each patience-testing situation as an opportunity to learn.
Once I started practicing patience, in earnest, by waiting patiently in line, for example, new dimensions of time opened up for me. When we look at the world differently, dimensional portals are exactly what we can discover within us.
We all are like onions. We all have layers. Whether we are secretive or we're completely honest about ourselves, each and every one of us has dimensions and depth. We gain depth as we gain life experience. We trade our youth for wisdom.
Most of us, knowing how many years we can waste with vanity, wouldn't trade our wisdom for youth or anything else. Having perspective has given us the ability to sit back and laugh (or cringe) at the road raging children stress themselves out about a half a minute's loss in their all-important mission to the store for smokes or cokes.
In the big city, before I chose to cultivate patience, I was a bit of a road-raging sailor behind the wheel. I was also an avid lane-changer and a secret tail-gater. Back then, I think my inner survival mechanism was the only thing that moved me to use life-saving patience and defensive skills while driving.
Impatience is prevalent in our changing city. I hate to be patronizing, but the speed limit in Weyburn is 40 km/hr unless otherwise posted. Passing on the right is illegal, so please stop it! Endangering a person's life is NOT worth it for the sake of a few seconds!
Remember, in traffic or anywhere else we find ourselves having to wait, we need to know that those moments we feel we're losing are NOT important - not as important as a safely functioning society.
We have to appreciate that sometimes, divine timing is at work and while we are busy stressing our bodies about a few minutes, the most magical things can be presented to us because of synchronistic 'accidents'.
How many times have people met important contacts, or even the love of their lives, because they missed their bus or had to reschedule an appointment due to a flat tire?
Sometimes, even a traffic light ceasing to obey our psychological 'efficiency timeline' is the critical instrument of choice for the universe to transpire for our benefit!
I believe that if we want something enough and we visualize and focus in purity of motive, we have to get out of the way so that it can be magnetized to us. This means, sometimes, that exercising patience is just the ticket for 小蓝视频 aware enough to recognize those opportunities for 小蓝视频 'in the right place at the right time.'
We can be presented with the same opportunities either way, but to be able to seize those opportunities is a function of discernment, which we only have if we are practicing patience, among other virtues.
Plenty of people are patiently waiting for their ideal dancing partner, their soul mate, their most appropriate match, their wild crazy romance, their person with whom they'll grow old. Plenty of others are not waiting for their 'person' quite so patiently. But, just like with anything else, the old saying applies: A watched pot doesn't boil. Most people find their person as soon as they surrender.
Surrender is giving something up, with the idea that letting it go allows it to be free, to return to you packaged up with a neat little bow from heaven.
Whether you're stuck in a moment or lost in its beauty and transcendence, you'll always do better to breathe and appreciate that you're exactly where you should be at that moment. Ask what you can learn from the experience. If you don't, have your smoke, drink your coke, and remember to use your defensive driving skills for the sake of the rest of us!
