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Patience

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by Roy Posner and MSS

Overview
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On Patience
-Patience is to embrace the right order of time.

-Patience is to control the untoward vital attachment and eagerness to accomplish.

-Patience is to be driven by limited time vision instead of the perfect time vision that knows the Truth of when things should be done.

Patience as Right Time Attitude
One of the simplest attitude towards time has to do with whether we are patient or impatient. If we willing to accept the duration of time required to accomplish a thing or for a matter to unfold,  then we are of a patient disposition. That patience in essence issues from a calm vital faith that all will unfold in its right sequence and due time. Through such a poise, life will constantly cooperate with out efforts, generating the greatest results in the shortest period of time. On the other hand, when we are reactive and hurried, we create an imbalance of energies that not only retard practical positive results, but align with problematic circumstance that we experience as ill-fortune. One particular lethal form occurs if an opportunity comes our way and we are impatient. The result will be that life will quickly cancel the opening, turning our joy into regret and sorrow. Thus, anyone who is of an impatience bent is advised to change that quality immediately to avoid such detrimental outcomes in the future.

On Patience

-Patience is to accept the movements of life in its own time, not one's own.

-Patience is a spiritual movement in which one allows the timing of events to run at its own pace and course and not prematurely interfere.

On Patience

-Patience puts you in the right flow of life, and in touch with the full truth of what is unfolding. This enables right understanding, decision-making, and action; hence success, enjoyment, and fulfillment in life.

-Patience thus reflects the Witness Consciousness of the Infinite Divine; its Stillness, Beingness, and Truth extended to the field of life. Haste, its opposite, attracts difficulty and opposition, as one is out of phase with the true unfoldings and flow of one's existence. 

Power of Patience and Flow

When you are patient, and follow the flow of life, everything works out perfectly, as life cooperates from various quarters.

Patience, Truth, and Knowledge
-Patience knows the truth of when things should be done.

-Patience is to wait into all aspects are known.

-Patience is the peace that emerges from  knowledge and truth.

On Patience
Patience is a waiting in silence that generates activities of the highest speed.

Patience is the ability to wait for any action till all aspects of a work are known. When all aspects are fully known, the work moves into action by itself. Before that, one takes initiative to act.

Patience is the knowledge of the process.

Patience converts tension into peace.

Capacity NOT to let a thought move or run is patience. (MSS)

Impatience
Impatience is to react to circumstance with the vital demand in front rather than the calm and quietude behind.

On Impatience
Impatience hurries because it can hardly wait.

Impatience emerges as reaction.

Impatience is the sensation of the moment viewing eternity.  

Impatience is nervous energy in excess unorganised into mental values.  (MSS)

Patience and Success
Long and short term patience is essential for successful living and high accomplishment.

The Energy of Quiet Patience, indicating Principle of "Hasten Slowly"
It is wrong to be impatient. It is equally wrong to be lethargic. Patience does not mean passivity. Quiet Patience has in it enormous energy, as Silence, through the energy it holds, calmly energizes activities outside. This is an indicator of the principle of "Hasten Slowly." (MSS, slightly modified)

Patience as Soul, Spiritual Quality
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Patience is of the Soul
Patience is a source of energy of the highest order, the order of the soul. Physical quiet makes the body function better, nervous calm makes for greater effectivity of the nerves, emotional stability helps one handle disturbed people better and mental peace is the foundation of acquiring greater knowledge. (MSS)

Patience is of Soul Quality

Patience is a psychic or soul quality and belongs to the plane of soul. It is said that there is no greater virtue than patience. With a little patience one can keep mind, nerves, and body come under greater control. For even those who are not endowed with great patience, an understanding of the fundamental value of patience gives a greater help than the urge to believe in the virtue of impatience. (MSS)

Patience is a Spiritual Quality
Know that patience is a spiritual quality, and try to realize it one degree higher at each appropriate moment. (MSS)

Patience and Equality

Patience is the attitude of equality. Equality is the consciousness of infinity. (MSS) [Equality does not react to any intensity, whether negative or positive." -editor]

Patience and Equality

Patience is the psychological version of spiritual equality.

Patience, Faith, and Time
Patience issues from a calm vital faith that all will unfold in its right sequence and due time.

Patience as Vital Silence
Patience is a form of vital silence; silence being a spiritual quality.

Opportunities, Accomplishment, and Patience
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Proper Absorption of Energy to Great Opportunities that is Patience
Often when people are presented with a great opportunity or other positive possibility (which brings in a higher level of energy), it is squandered away by an over eager reaction by that person. If instead the individual keeps the parts of his being calm, steady, undisturbed -- in short, patient -- he absorbs that incoming energy and the opportunity or other positive possibility gets completed and realized. If, for some reason, he is unable to absorb the incoming energies, the energy is "spilled over" and the opportunity or possibility evaporates and is lost. (paraphrase of MSS)

Patience and Life Response
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Patience, Impatience and Life Response
-If you give to much attention to an illness it becomes worse. Likewise, if you are too attentive to something you want to come about (i.e. impatient), it causes it to move away from you. However, if you turn impatience into patience, stillness, and calm, positive things in that or other areas will begin to move towards you.

-When you act impatiently, negative things can occur during or at the end of that act. When you turn impatience into patience in that act, you see that at the end, you receive the best outcome; the one that was "meant to be."�

Patience and Life Response
Patience makes life respond positively on the outside. Impatience retards response, even brings negative response.

Impatience Delays, Cancels Opportunity
Impatience delays, or even cancels an opportunity.

Patience Overcomes the Negative
Patience tends to negate negative situations after they arise.

Approaches to Being Patient
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Refocus and Inner Poise that Overcomes Impatience
Focus on other things, if you are impatient about a thing. Even better is to move to a deeper consciousness within, away from the surface, of calm and serenity. Life builds a great power from that poise.

Inner Poise and Patience
When you are stationed within there is a kind of patience that envelops you. That patience and equality gives you the steadiness that helps life point you in the right direction, so you know what are to the right actions to take, enabling you to do your very best, with perfect outcomes.

Life's Pause and Patience
When everything stops, and nothing moves in our lives, it is time to learn patience, and discover faith by returning to our soul status.

Articles, Other
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MSS Articles on Patience