Patience

Being Patient



Today's article is about patience. Patience is considered the opposite of anger. I know we all need more patience in our live, as being patient all of the time is difficult. Man's weakness is the fact that he can be emotional and override virtue. Man’s greatest passion is less than man’s least bit of compassion. We are creatures bound to the fallen condition of the world. We try our best to hide yet we know it is almost impossible. We are slaves to our own habit, and many give into wrath before we seek patience.


Being patient can free your soul. There is so much we can achieve from a sublime attitude that includes patience and compassion. We are so much more than animals responding to others in aggression and predatory nature. We are the most magnificent creation, able to forgive others and feel patience towards their mistakes. Patience will free your soul, and you will feel the peace that comes with it. There is love for each other in us, and it is an absolute crime not to exercise it. The human being is a person who takes offense first and thinks second. Careful thought before an action is divine nature. Those who show patience first will reap the bounty of the karmic existence: you will feel the freedom that is given unto you through karma, with three times the reward coming back to you. Be patient through all things, and you will find that the human world and all of the privileges that come from it will be worth the price.


Patience As A Virtue

The seven virtues conflict the seven vices in many texts. They are seen as a divine way of living versus an infernal way of living. We will be looking at wrath versus patience on a secular level. Wrath is known as anger and “ira” in Latin. Anger is something that we often don’t have control over. Our only way of avoiding our emotional reaction is to think with our minds first. Self-restraint is not the easiest thing to grasp completely in all situations. With wrath, we must not restrain ourselves but the anger itself. Master the mind and the body will be conquered as well. The mind is where both negative and positive energy, emotion, and thought comes from. We must make sure that the mind is always accounted for, as enlightenment is the ultimate virtue. Feeling negative emotion like anger destroys enlightenment. Our enlightenment must be our first priority. Before we feel anger we must first surrender to our mind, transferring what our emotional side feels to the unconcious mind, leaving only patience to you and the other. Any anger is irrational, as stated before, making patience the humane and spiritual root.


It’s not to say that anger won’t appear in our lives. Patience will appear, too, and when we feel both at the same time we must quench the fire that is wrath, preferably right away. Anger kills the soul, and we know that the bounds of how much it can ravage our soul and mind are endless. Patience is the reasonable and virtuous man and woman’s response, and we can respond this way numerous times. We’ve all heard of someone having “the patience of a saint” and this could be ours and we must aim for it. Patience is something that starts in the mind and extends to the other person. Patience makes the light shine a little bit brighter, and will clear your vision. Go out there, and destroy your anger today, feeling patience, love, and compassion for others.