December 21, 1979
December 21, 1979
Patience is directly proportional to the purpose. If you really want, if you know what you want, you have Patience. When you are not really sure of what you want, you’re hasty, you want to arrive soon to see if it will satisfy you, because if it doesn’t, you’ll move on to another purpose, and if that doesn’t satisfy you, you’ll move on to yet another… That is the way for most people: they do a lot of things, a bunch of things, but they never really do anything, because they don’t know what they want.
The one who knows what they want, who knows that they will find it, who has at least felt that they will find it, this one isn’t in a hurry. This one knows that in the very progression of everyday life, of every instant of the day, they will be learning what they want, because what they want – if it is the Universal Purpose – is within them. So, every instant, every look, every fact heard, every word heard, every person, every aura touched, every sensation provided by the five senses, will be a lesson to them. They will always be learning.
This is important! It’s very important that this be said to you now, because you will only be able to savor things if you start to observe everything.
So, Patience is self-cultivated when you know what you want. It goes all by itself. It appears by itself; because lack of Patience is usually associated with wasting time, that is, “I’m wasting time, I’m here not doing anything; could it be that this is what I want, or isn’t it?” Well, then the main thing hasn’t yet been understood, and the main thing is that you are never wasting time, as long as you know that at every instant, many lessons are presenting themselves around you. You are always having a lesson. Every instant you are learning. But you have to know at least what you want – the objective of your life!