A condition for allowing the breakthrough process to continue is patience, or the ability to wait. Because of the instant culture that we live in – instant results and same day delivery – we’ve rather lost the art of waiting and we want to speed everything up, although nature can’t really be speeded up. So we have to relearn what this art of waiting as part of our cultivation of the spirit, the field, really means. Rather than thinking about it as something we have to be frustrated by – because we’re not getting what we want immediately so we get impatient and frustrated – we can think of it in a very different way. We can think of it in a creative way.
The Art of Waiting by Laurence Freeman OSB
