“Patience is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path. By patience, we do not mean endurance — as in “grin and bear it.” In any situation instead of reacting suddenly, we could chew it, smell it, look at it, and open ourselves to seeing what’s there. The opposite of patience is aggression — the desire to jump and move, to push against our lives, to try to fill up space. The journey of patience involves relaxing, opening to what’s happening, experiencing a sense of wonder.”
~ Pema Chodron
Patience is a graceful process of surrendering the need to control how life unfolds. For some, patience is their natural state. They have faith that all is well and trust fully in Divine timing.
But, if you’re like most people, my friend, you probably find yourself reluctantly shifting to patience from a space of frustration. In essence you say to yourself, “Okay, I give up. This is not what I wanted. This is taking much longer than I’d like. I feel like I’m going backwards. Clearly my efforts aren’t yielding the results I want. It’s time to let go.”
Letting go of our attachment to things happening in a particular way or by a particular time creates the space for even better things to come our way.