Inner Truth: Patience is the Key

Have you found yourself unable to focus on your work or study for as much as you could before? Do you find yourself getting bored of relationships too soon? Do you find yourself actively searching for newer ways to spend your free time? If all this is true, don’t look for a solution – look for the problem. Only when you manage to identify the problem, will you be able to solve it.

The problem you will discover is not with your restless mind, but is with your lifestyle. Mind’s behaviour is a helpless by-product of your impatient lifestyle. With this understanding look at your lifestyle. You will be amazed to find that, you are surrounded by things, people and an environment that demands constant change, constant re-prioritisation and constant movement.

Patience is the key. Spending time in an environment that encourages patience is helpful. A farmer cannot be as impatient as a geek who complains of his 4G Internet being slow. An artist or a writer cannot demand ideas to be served to him at the speed of a fast food center. A mother cannot expect the baby in her womb to be delivered at speed of an email.

Observe the lifestyle of those that have to be patient to get the right results. Focus on those aspects of life that foster patience. Spend some time every day doing those activities that cultivate patience. And remember that this is the quality that makes all the difference to winning in the game of life. 

The author is a reader of dna and a spiritual practitioner
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