Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.

You cannot control the results, only your actions.

Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness.

Patience has all the time it needs.

That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.

Kindness is the ability to love someone in such a way that she will remember your kindness for the rest of her life.

Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.

The only power which can illuminate you is your own mind! No other mind can lighten you if your mind insists to remain in the darkness! The fate of your fate is within you!

The transformation of a nation is impossible without God's grace.

Walls have ears.Doors have eyes.Trees have voices.Beasts tell lies.Beware the rain.Beware the snow.Beware the manYou think you know.-Songs of Sapphique

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

Everything I do is Mingus.

Any power, of course, depends upon the values of the person exercising the power.

Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.

How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf.