Quotes About Patience

the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.

When this pattern becomes more pronounced, and this is very common, the present moment is regarded and treated as if it were an obstacle to be overcome. This is where impatience, frustration, and stress arise

A similar question in the Zen tradition is this: "If not now, when?

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Focus not on the one hundred things that you will or may have to do at some future time but on the one thing that you can do now. This doesn't mean you should not do any planning. It may well be that planning is the one thing you can do now. But make sure you don't start to run "mental movies," project yourself into the future, and so lose the Now. Any action you take may not bear fruit immediately. Until it does — do not resist what is.

Even when the sky is heavily overcast, the sun hasn't disappeared. It's still there on the other side of the clouds.

So give up waiting as a state of mind.

Be like a servant waiting for the return of the master," says Jesus. The servant does not know at what hour the master is going to come. So he stays awake, alert, poised, still, lest he miss the master's arrival.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.

Non è insolito trascorrere l'intera vita aspettando di cominciare a vivere

NO TE PREOCUPES POR EL FRUTO DE TUS ACCIONES: mantente atento a la acción misma. El fruto ya vendrá cuando corresponda.

you cannot cope with the future.

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present. For

Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action — just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

Abandone la espera como un estado mental. Cuando se sorprenda a sí mismo cayendo en ella...salga inmediatamente.

This, too, will pass...

Whenever you are waiting, wherever it may be, use that time to feel the inner body. In this way, traffic jams and lines become very enjoyable. Instead of mentally projecting yourself away from the Now, go more deeply into the Now by going more deeply into the body.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

So next time somebody says, "Sorry to have kept you waiting," you can reply, "That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing here enjoying myself — in joy in my self." These are just a few of the habitual

Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present moment but wanting to be in the future. You can move fast, work fast, or run without projecting yourself into the future and without resisting the present. As you move, do it totally, enjoying the flow of energy at that moment. Or when you do nothing and the mind says you should be working. You are wasting time - observe the mind. Smile at it!

With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between where you don't want to be (now) and where you want to be (the projected future). Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting, snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything.