Passage Nine: Being In Harmony
Any attempt to rid oneself
Of impatience
Is an expression of it.
Having patience
With your impatience,
Things will be no different,
But you will be.
Learning to accept
Is not learning to like
What you do not.
You start
With your feelings.
I do not attempt
To lord over my world.
I do not attempt
To lord over myself.
I do not
Order things about.
I ask
That they might be.
There are ways which lead
To growth and development.
There are ways which lead
To sickness of the spirit.
No one can tell you
Which are which.
You must learn discernment
For yourself.
There is light and darkness
In the world
And in each one of us.
You cannot rid yourself
Of the darkness,
But nurture the light,
And the darkness
Will fade.
It is the essence of light
That it is patient
With darkness.
Any attempt to rid oneself
Of impatience
Is an expression of it.
Having patience
With your impatience,
Things will be no different,
But you will be.
