Quotes About Patience

PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path.

As one student said, "Lower your standards and relax as it is.

The opposite of patience is aggression—the desire to jump and move, to push against our lives, to try to fill up space.

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.

You should never have expectations for other people. Just be kind to them.

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all.

Cutting our expectations for a cure is a gift we can give ourselves. There is no cure for hot and cold. They will go on forever.

WHEN we are training in the art of peace, we are not given any promises that because of our noble intentions everything will be okay.

A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next.

To think that we can finally get it all together is unrealistic.

think of a time when you were angry, when someone said or did something that you didn't like, a time when you wanted to get even or you wanted to vent. Now, what if you had been able to stop, breathe deeply, and slow the process down? Right on the spot you could connect with natural openness. You could stop, give space, and empower the wolf of patience and courage instead of the wolf of aggression and violence.

It is with this unfixated mind of prajna that we practice generosity, discipline, enthusiasm, patience, and meditation, moving from narrow-mindedness to flexibility and fearlessness.

It's like this for all of us initially. We can contact our inner strength, our natural openness, for short periods before getting swept away. And this is excellent, heroic, a huge step in interrupting and weakening our ancient habits. If we keep a sense of humor and stay with it for the long haul, the ability to be present just naturally evolves. Gradually we lose our appetite for biting the hook. We lose our appetite for aggression. If

The trick is not getting caught in hope and fear.

The journey of patience involves relaxing, opening to what's happening, experiencing a sense of wonder.

Cutting our expectations for a cure is a gift we can give ourselves.

There is, however, no need to be a prophet of doom or for us to go around living in constant dread. Our situation is definitely workable. By learning not to bite the hook now, with the little annoyances of an ordinary day, we'll be preparing ourselves to work with whatever lies ahead with compassion and wisdom.

Suzuki Roshi gave the instructions, 'sit still. Don't anticipate...

in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts. We stay with our own little plot of earth and trust that it can be cultivated, that cultivation will bring it to its full potential. Even though it's full of rocks and the soil is dry, we begin to plow this plot with patience. We let the process evolve naturally.

The key instruction is to stay in the present. Don't get caught up in hopes of what you'll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

You are never going to get it all together, you're never going to get your act together, fully, completely. You're never going to get all the little loose ends tied up.

to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will. It's going to stick around until you learn your lesson, at any rate. You can leave your marriage, you can quit your job, you can only go where people are going to praise you, you can manipulate your world until you're blue in the face to try to make it always smooth, but the same old demons will always come up until finally you have learned your lesson, the lesson they came to teach you.

What I have realized through practicing is that practice isn't about beng the best horse or the good horse or the poor horse or the worst horse.

If we find ourselves unworkable and give up on ourselves, then we'll find others unworkable and give up on them.