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I was once waiting in line in a grocery store and a woman about three, four feet ahead of me was losing her patience. She just couldn’t wait until her turn. It occurred to me that patience is a worthy virtue. It’s not given to everyone and unfortunately, some people are more angry than they are patient. Anger is the direct consequence of losing your patience and it’s precisely because we don’t have tolerance for something or someone that we get mad.
Why would you do that? Why would you act this way? The more patience you have, the less irritation, anger, and rage you’ll experience. This isn’t to say that anger is bad. But you should never put up with the exploitation or the abuse of your patience in regard to the health that you are wanting in yourself of what you should be doing. There’s virtue in anger, not a lot, but there is some when it comes, for instance, to injustice of any sort; but when you are angry, you’re carrying the burden while the other person is out dancing. That’s an old Irish proverb, interestingly enough.
The way people look at each other have different priorities, motivations, histories, cultures… We spend unfortunately too much time and a great deal of energy trying to get the rest of the world to behave, act or see the things the way we should, the way we want, the way we think. It turns out that patience, that calm and steadiness in the face of what might otherwise annoy us, is the gateway to empathy, the capacity to be aware of the feelings of others. That’s what it is. The more patience that we have, the greater the ability that we benefit and that we develop, to feel for others. Rather than be annoyed for instance at someone. Why don’t you look at their great accomplishments in life and look at their virtue. You see, patience allows us to live a more harmonious life with family members, with friends and colleagues, with acquaintances, and many of them, if not all of them, maybe different from us. Our neighbors, for instance, may have dissimilar priorities. They have diverse interests and this is the way life is. Patience gives us a greater sense of wonder, the variety of human nature and how much weight or capacity to open our hearts to all of them. With patience, you’re able to understand people, not just accept them. You’re able to feel for others, even the things that you yourself sometimes are not quite appreciative of. It’s what patience brings you. Patience is a worthy virtue and it’s worth in every aspect to develop it, to focus on it, to look at it as something which is important and critical to your very being. I suggest you pay attention to that in every aspect.
Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 597 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
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