The Face of Patience

One of the most important qualities to cultivate within one’s soul, is the quality of patience.

In patience, there is a wisdom that comes with honoring the universal intelligence that is expressing itself through you. Honoring its own pace, its own time, and honoring it as a something that does not actually belong to you, but to the whole of nature. It allows you to surrender to this natural process, becoming an apprentice, a student, of that which is moving through you.

Ultimately, we are not in charge of our own blossoming. We are in charge of our allowing/resistance to this blossoming, but ultimately our blossoming happens in its own time. When we look at a flower, it is not using its personal will to grow, but rather nature supports and blossoms through it as the flower simply allows itself to be. When we look out into nature, upon the sunrise, into the ocean, as we gaze upon the stars, intuitively we understand that this great Mystery is expressing itself through us, on its own accord, with or without our awareness of it. nature simply moves and reveals itself through us. To think we do this on our own accord is a misidentification of power.

It is our job to attune ourselves more acutely to this inner process, and then we must learn how to hold space for its expression. We remain present for whatever the moment calls of us, and then we create an environment that is conducive for what is wanting to be brought forth, just as a gardener cultivates the optimum environment for a plant to grow – allowing nature to simply express.

Please, understand that what is unfolding through you is not actually of you. It is something that belongs to the Whole, thus you are not in control of the timing of its unfolding. Though nature determines the pace, you ARE in control as to whether or not you allow or resist this natural process to occur. True wisdom comes from the understanding of how one’s personal will balances with the will of this universal intelligence.

Trust the inner impulses that are moving though you. Acknowledging the impulses, acting on them, and creating an optimum environment for them to be expressed – this will allow for a much more graceful blossoming to occur.

When we look out into the great beauty that surrounds us, in the birds, in the trees, in the stars, the sun, the mountains, and the moon, we become filled with peace, because we come into commune with what we have have always been a part of. We get a glimpse of our true identity, as a part of something larger, more grand than our minds can even begin to comprehend.

May we trust and honor, in ever deepening ways, that which we are forever a part of.