Patience
Leo Tolstoy, the famous Russian writer, said, "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." This is a very strong statement that sometimes unconsciously influences our thinking, and makes the ignorant believe that when we wait, we waste and burn. Does patience mean a waste of time?
Patience is not indolence. Patience is waiting on your toes: doing something now, while chasing the big one. The little one you're doing now is a part of the big one, and every single daily step is an investment aimed at manifesting the huge one.
Time overcomes every creature. Patience is the wisdom with which creatures negotiate and earn value within time. It is impossible to win in the battle of life without persistent efforts, endurance, long-suffering and commitment. These values are the wisdom embedded in patience, used within the fabric of time.
To everything in time, there is a season; there is a time value; and a purpose, all in time. Now, for the purpose that you seek, you must align with the element of time. This means being in tune with the Infinite who made all and brought same into finite time. Time is temporal but the Infinite is eternal and timeless.
The biggest rogues unknown to mankind are the rogues of time who steal attention, rob mankind of focus and cloud the observation of clarity. Our inability to account for time leaves us in a state of loss.
We really are unable to manage time. However, we are able to manage our activities within the time allotted to us and the tasks we have at hand. This requires effective planning and thinking because time is fleeting. Time is a catalyst against every other thing.
The only thing that we are expected to do with the time at our disposal is to embed our activities within time ; and to keep moving; to keep ticking just as time ticks. This is when patience will yield us its rewards.
Patience means to recognize that something is always happening, though we may not always see it because many of us have our sensibilities and mental faculties aligned only to the seen as opposed to the unseen. This inability to peer into the abstract robs men of the great treasure of waiting for the right time to exhibit the purpose of their cause.
A thorough understanding of waiting is a great wisdom tool that is vastly unused. When we wait, we get things done; we move internally; we move in our imagination; we connect with and attract things; we study the trend and play in our space based on the knowledge that everything is sown and matures in its own season.
Patience is a prudence trait and virtue that the majority of the successful hardly mention on their journey up. When they share their success stories, they tend to gloss over their patience. Moments of patience are often moments of mistakes. This is what leads to iteration where proficiency is incidentally earned.
Patience is a potent tool for winning. Without it, there's no enduring accomplishment. The patient is sold to orison. He who prays waits. The one who sows a field nurtures the wheat and protects it against tares, rodents and other dangerous organisms. He weeds in waiting. He inspects in waiting. He watches diligently for the maturity of what has been sown.
The patient meditates and carefully weighs options based on experience and insights. The introspective who enjoy moments of muse calibrate all their activities with the all-potent tool of prayer. They wait as they seek the big break. They walk the mines with all their thoughts glued on their purpose. Such thoughts are pure and unwavering. You can't separate them from prayer.
When we invest in one area of endeavour, we wait patiently for the maturity of our investment. If men sow into their wives, they have to wait. If you put resources into any kind of investment, you have to wait. During the period of waiting, your thoughts are fixed on the investment.
Fixed thoughts are concentrated and they exude the power of results. They influence outcomes positively. Your imagination is not vain. Your imagination works deliberately, and directed at a certain vision built on purpose.
Patience is not used in a vacuum. You don't wait on nothing. You wait on a specific thing. You put in something in expectation of getting out something. How do you wait in expectation of what you have not sown? This is the problem and reason why the majority get disappointment. They sincerely should not because they only waited on a void, having sown nothing.
The impatient are not virtuous. While the patient are strong, the impatient are weak. The impatient have no authentic stories to tell because they either have not sown and so fail to direct their energies to specifics, or they are probably ignorant of the rules of the game they play. This is the reason they are impatient. They actually lack direction.
Patience has never ceased to be a virtue. There is never going to be a time that the patient dog will not eat the fattest bone. It is the law of Life that the wise and diligent tap into and live on. It is an unfailing wisdom tool for the masters of all time in all fields of human endeavour.
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