Patience...

Patience is one of the principle things in life, although
sometimes patience is as bitter, as hard, as unbearable
as death. Sometimes one would prefer death to patience.
But is it of the greatest importance for the human race to
develop patience in all conditions of life, in all walks of
life. Whether we are rich or poor, high or low, this is the
one quality that must be developed. Besides it is patience
that is all-powerful, and by lack of patience one loses much.
Very often the answer to one's prayer is within one's reach,
the hand of Providence not very far off, and then one loses
one's patience and thereby the opportunity.

Therefore impatience, in whatever form, is to be avoided.
It makes one lose one's equilibrium, and when that is
lost, nothing can be accomplished. There is no gain to be
had from impatience; yet patience does not necessarily
mean sloth, negligence, or laziness.

-Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Hazrat Inayat Khan
Mastery Through Accomplishment
Omega Press, 1978