Glossary · Term
Patience
A virtue we need to cultivate, because it allows us to respect the rhythms of the Universe with serenity. Having patience means having conscious inner peace.
In the Foundation's Topics
The vexing external circumstances that torment us every day are the “school of consciousness”; it is they that, through patience and understanding, finally hand over to the Being the reins of the formerly “untamed steed” of the conceptualized, ego-based mind.
With patience and trust, we will make better progress in this process of development of consciousness.
Having conscious inner peace means having patience (which is not tolerance of suffering but, as has been said, “calm and knowledge of peace”), and understanding that things are not instantaneous, but that everything in the Universe is part of a process.