The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.

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.

Approach a trip as a chance to collect unique experiences, not passport stamps, postcards and snapshots in front of famous monuments.

Whatever a person wants to sacrifice for God will be multiplied many times over by God will be multiplied many times over by God for that person

One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way.

I turn my girl on like fifty shades of grey.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

You cannot lead people you do not influence.

And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.

I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying.