Patience is the capacity to remain in relationship with processes that cannot or should not be rushed.
Patience is the capacity to remain in relationship with processes that cannot or should not be rushed.
Some things respond to effort. Others respond to time.
Patience lets us distinguish between the two.
It appears when we can stay with uncertainty without manufacturing certainty simply to end the discomfort. It lets learning deepen, grief move at its own pace and relationships reveal themselves through repeated experience rather than immediate conclusions.
Patience is not passivity. Sometimes patience means continuing to act while accepting that the result will not arrive today.
It is our ability to live responsibly inside the delay between what we begin and what becomes visible.