Our actions speak for us & they speak loudly.

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.

Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action?

Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

Endurance is spiritual.

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee.

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.