Becoming Patient Man III - Moving Forward

[PatientMan]

I thought I had come up with a nice definition of patience,

Patience isn't the absence of action, it is the discipline of preparing and calmly waiting until the time is right to act.

but this guy said it better. On PATIENCE:

...patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can—working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

Impatience, on the other hand, is a symptom of selfishness. It is a trait of the self-absorbed. It arises from the all-too-prevalent condition called “center of the universe” syndrome, which leads people to believe that the world revolves around them and that all others are just supporting cast in the grand theater of mortality in which only they have the starring role.

I'm sure the first paragraph has been posted here by someone else before, because I had it in my notes.

Endure well!

-PM