Day 33 - Patience

Patience and passion both come from a Latin word meaning to suffer or endure. By practicing patience we can respond rather than react, and by doing so, stay centered and at peace. 

Reflection
  • The desire for immediate relief or gratification can be compelling and seductive.
  • How can you remind yourself that a moment of patience may avert a lifetime of regret?
Action
  • Today, practice patience with challenging people or situations in your life.
  • Being patient is a powerful act of nonviolence.
  • Try to control your reaction to annoying situations in your life by taking deep breaths.
  • Notice the different responses you get when you are patient.
“With love and patience, nothing is impossible.”
Daisaku Iked
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
Edmund Burke
“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.”
Joseph Addison
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
Gertrude Jekyll
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
Aristotle
“Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.”
David G. Allen
“With love and patience, nothing is impossible.”
Daisaku Iked
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
Edmund Burke
“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.”
Joseph Addison
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
Gertrude Jekyll
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
Aristotle
“Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.”
David G. Allen
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Fritzi Horstman is the Founder and Executive Director of Compassion Prison Project. She is a Grammy-award winning producer for her work on “The Defiant Ones”, has been a producer and post-producer on dozens of television projects and documentaries and has directed several films. She believes it is urgent to bring humanity and compassion to those living behind bars and these acts will help transform our society. She has a Bachelor’s Degree from Vassar College.

Day 33