Hello dearest friend! I hope you are not AI as well!!
...you are listening to Mike Sandler's "Inspire Nation", right?
Ohh, I am SO ready!!
spiritualcookie wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 11:44 pm
Me: I thought patience was just when you have resistance to things...
Source:
But you DO have resistance to your spiritual development!
Me: oh..
So if I didnt have resistance, I could progress more quickly?
Source: Of course.
I LOVE source for their straightforwardness... oh, my.
I soooo hear that. It was a bitter pill to swallow *for me* to let go of impatience! I enjoy speed, and am SUCH a fire-bird (and recently realized that I have ADD). Everything needs to be NOW!!! And, I realized that in this way, I miss the JOY of the journey. I don't enjoy my growing, all the small moments of delightful insight, of celebrating my building- and more and more understanding. I want the result, but the TRUE fun is in the becoming. This sounds like the embroidery on an old German sofa-pillow... but there's so much wisdom in old German sofa-pillows!
To "progress more quickly" betrays you of the scenic ride! Of the pleasure that is within DEEPLY feeeeeling the newness in all it's beauty... and then more, and more and more...
I didn't know, as you said, too, if the word "patience" is the right one. So I looked up the word just NOW while I write this, and found: From late 15c., as "awaiting or expecting an outcome calmly and without discontent." That sounds solidly ITV, to me!
Than I looked up "Geduld", the German word for patience, which goes back to ancient Germanic and means "holding, bringing and even more, carrying", which includes "standing something", I would translate this with "unconditionally" holding, bringing and carrying. Doing what it takes, to hold and bring what is wanted...? It came with this copperplate:
...I'd say, this picture describes the Focus on the good and wanted that we care for, with disregard to what we don't want.
WOW. I feel I have a completely new idea of "patience", now!
so much for inspiring this within me!