Patience

In this practice of cultivating patience, we begin by being aware of the present moment and learning to open to all experiences without rushing to change, control, judge or over analyse them. Allowing the world to unfold as it is moment by moment. This may mean observing thoughts, emotions, physical sensations and interactions as they are, simply just pausing, allowing space between a trigger and reaction. In our Wednesday Pause, this space might already exist for you.

Patience, Linnea Orians

The goodness of patience,

I took and bent to make me righteous;

Claiming it was good of me,

To be patient with the world.

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Yet patience is not mine to declare,

Instead it is seeing the world around;

Revolving at its own speed,

Without the burden of waiting.

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What a humbleness patience requires;

An outpouring of acceptance,

Realizing it is not our mountain to move,

But still believing it can be.

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May my heart turn to be,

The purest form of patient,

Not in my own strength,

But in the greatest grace of all.

Guide: Noelle Lim

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