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The Virtue of Patience

by Dr. Denis Waitley

As long as we are patient in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

While persistence is the determination to strive to achieve your ultimate goal, there is another virtue of equally great value. Persistence keeps us moving inside ourselves to see the purpose behind the purpose, but patience is the wisdom behind persistence.

Patience cautions us to focus our efforts on what we can change while accepting what we cannot. When external circumstance rains on our parade, patience is our umbrella. Rather than blaming what we cannot control, patience gives us pause for reflection so we can dry off and start looking for a new way.

In his book Time and the Art of Living, Robert Grudon says that patience harnesses the power of time for our own purposes. What does he mean by "the power of time?" The answer is change. Time changes everything. No person passes through time unchanged. We grow older. Our relationships either deepen or break up. We achieve our goals, or we abandon them, or we hang in there.

You see, it is when a goal is distant and difficult to reach that patience is our ally. Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, we know that time will finally create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.

Imagine you are on a carousel. From the ceiling, the proprietor has hung a ring. Whoever grabs the ring wins another turn, but there's one rule for all: You cannot get off your horse to grab the ring. Suppose the first time your horse passes the ring, as the merry-go-round keeps circling, your horse bobs and it is physically impossible to reach the prized object.

If you curse your bad luck and the fact that the conditions were not right for you, you'll not be doing all you can to prepare for the next time the ring comes around. Suppose you miss and miss again? Do you give up and get off? The patient person knows that if he or she can keep the eyes fixed on the ring, on the goal, in time he or she will catch that ring.

And what of patience with regard to our purpose behind the purpose? How does patience relate to the deep desire to find a destiny worthy of ourselves? It is absolutely indispensable. No one can attain the fullness of his or her life according to a timetable. No one can find a destiny worthy of a full life without living that life conscientiously and passionately in the natural order in which it comes. When you plant a flower, you need to have the patience to let it grow, and the same is true of yourself.

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