Is Patience still a virtue?

For many years and in many cultures, it has been said that patience is a virtue.     An entire mindset has been built on the idea that swift gratifications are often not nearly as valuable as steady, well-considered thinking, but in these days of fast actions and instant information, we have to ask:  Is patience still a needed quality?  Can we be satisfied and, indeed, expanded by outcomes that sometimes seem to pop up before our eyes?  While excellence can sometimes come in an instant, I think those of us who engage in what can be called “long-haul thinking” would more likely opt for the clarifying establishment of patience as a valuable quality of mature brain usage.

We will need a patient hand...            

We all know that some things of beauty cannot occur without measured thoughts and actions.  Many works of art would not come into being without the time and energy needed to allow their fulfillment to take place.  Therefore, like it or not, there will be many instances where we will need a patient hand in realizing wonderful outcomes.  We might as well become skilled at the development of carefully-crafted means that get us where we want to go because,   in our use of developed skills we will more regularly participate in the expanding fullness of our own lives, a fulfillment eagerly to be sought…

 

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