Patience is the ability to endure the unbearable with unwavering composure.

It is said that patience is a virtue. Indeed, it is the highest virtue that you should cultivate in order to let the natural masterpiece that you are unravel itself to you. Patience allows you to see the manifestation of a thing in its natural fullness. Developing enduring patience leads to peace within you.

Patience is cultivated by not interfering in the natural unfoldment of things and letting things happen when it is supposed to happen. You develop patience when you are completely involved in the process and not in the outcome.

When you feel the urge within you to interfere in the natural unfoldment of things, it is a sign of impatience caused by your personal preferences and expectations about both the timing and nature of the outcome. With your thinking mind firmly set on your expectations of the outcome, you are never present in the here and now, but exist only in the non-existent future. This leads to anxiety about the future, and frustration when things don’t go according to your expectations.

But the outcome is never under your control. It never was, and never will be.

Instead, when you divorce yourself of the outcome, which is about a non-existent future not under your control, and completely involve yourself in the process, which is the present moment, and under your control, you discover yourself and experience peace within you.