Passage Twenty-Four: Patience
Growth is not a getting
Of knowledge or understanding.
Growth is an unfoldment
Of being and becoming.
Growth
Cannot be hurried,
But it can be slowed
By impatience.
Learn to be
Patient with yourself,
As you are,
And in so doing,
You will nurture growth.
Kindness
In your dealings
With yourself and others
Will work wonders
In your life.
Much more so
Than rightness
In your thinking.
Out of ignorance
We do many wrongs
To one another
And many things
We later regret,
Unless we remain
In ignorance.
There is no escaping the past.
There is only accepting
And not accepting
In the present.
Accepting yourself,
As you were,
Makes it possible
For you to accept yourself,
As you are.
Accepting yourself,
As you are,
Makes it possible,
For you to accept others,
As they are.
Growth takes time,
And patience
Takes patience
To learn.
Forgiveness
Is patience
With the past.
Patience
Is forgiveness
Of the present.
