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Meditation: a different kind of experience with Laurence Freeman

Contemplative Revolution

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Meditation - Do You Have the Patience to Wait?

We are perhaps creating a lot of problems for ourselves and all of these fields of modern life because we are so impatient. A certain amount of impatience is a good thing, otherwise you'd never get anything done. But to be chronically impatient, chronically driven through instantaneous results is to dissociate yourself from the world of nature. So there are some ways in which we just have to accept the time it takes for some things to happen... It should take time. We don't get instantaneous results for everything. This is the repeated wisdom of all the great masters of the contemplative traditions east and west, north and south. The word wisdom in Latin, sapientia, comes from the word sa

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