“Patience has a lot to do with getting smart at that point and just waiting: not speaking or doing anything. On the other hand, it also means being completely and totally honest with yourself about the fact that you’re furious. You’re not suppressing anything–patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact,
it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself….This suggests the fearlessness that goes with patience. If you practice the kind of patience that leads to the de-escalation of aggression and the cessation of suffering, you will be cultivating enormous courage.” ~ Pema Chodron
Remember
this:
The only way God has of letting us know of
His infinite supply and His desire to make it ours is for Him to push gently on
the divine spark living within each one of us. He wants you to be a strong,
self-efficient man or woman, to have more power and dominion over all before
you; so He quietly and silently pushes a little more of Himself, His desire,
into the center of your being. He enlarges, so to speak, your real self, and at
once you become conscious of new desire to be bigger, grander, stronger. If He
had not pushed at the center of your being first, you would never have thought
of new desires, but would have remained perfectly content as you were.
Desire in the heart for anything is God's
sure promise sent beforehand to indicate that it is yours already in the
limitless realm of supply, and whatever you want you can have for the taking.
Affirm your possession of the good that you
desire; have faith in it, because you are working with divine law and cannot
fail; do not be argued off your basic principle by anyone; and sooner will the
heavens fall than that you fail to get that which you desire.
"All things whatsoever ye pray and ask
for, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them" (Mk. 11:24).
You do not and cannot,
by any possibility, desire that which belongs to another. You do not desire
your neighbor's wife. You desire the love that seems to you to be represented
by your neighbor's wife. You desire something to fill your heart's craving for
love. Affirm that there is for you a rightful and an overflowing supply, and
claim its manifestation. It will surely come, and your so-called desire to
possess your neighbor's wife will suddenly disappear.
So you do not in reality
desire anything that belongs to your neighbor. You want the equivalent of that
for which his possessions stand. You want your own. There is today an unlimited
supply of all good provided in the unseen for every human being. No man must
needs have less that another may have more. Your very own awaits you. Your
understanding faith, or trust, is the power that will bring it to you.
Every person in his heart desires, though he may not yet quite
know it, this new birth into a higher life, into spiritual consciousness.
Everyone wants more power, more good, more joy. And though, to the unawakened
mind, it may seem that it is more money as money, or more goods that he wants,
it is, nevertheless, more of good (God) that he craves, for all good is God.
From "Lessons in Truth" by H. Emilie
Cady
If you want to change any condition in your life,
then "give the Law new instructions," wrote Ernest Holmes.
The unawakened mind
tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we
must understand the whole process of making war within ourselves and without,
how it begins and how it ends. War’s roots are in ignorance. Without
understanding we can easily become frightened by life’s fleeting changes, the
inevitable losses, disappointments, the insecurity of our aging and death.
Misunderstanding leads us to fight against life, running from pain or grasping
at security and pleasures that by their nature can never be satisfying. Jack Kornfield
Our thoughts are shaping unmade spheres, And, like a blessing or a curse, They thunder down the formless years And ring throughout the universe.
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