PATIENCE
Patience is physical. Endurance is physical. Tolerance is physical. They are
wonderful stepping stones to start with. But you, little one, have gone beyond
those stepping stones. Now you take a leap and go that which is real. The
real face of patience, and tolerance and forbearance and endurance, my dear one,
is acceptance! When there is acceptance, how will you be impatient? In
your acceptance is the wisdom of no time and no space and all here and all now.
Then where do patience and impatience fit in?
What is patience? Someone is late. And you have to wait (Sohrab laughed) He is
laughing because it rhymed! (Hearty laughter) And you sit looking at my son's (Yezad's)
favourite toys. And every moment you register and when that person walks in, you
remember wise words 'I must be patient'. (Laughter) And so you smile (very
hearty laughter). But when you see this smile, do not now forget to observe, one
small action. As a sub-conscious action, the person will cover the watch. The
Mind is being told in this one action 'do not look at time, then I can be
patient'.
When will I become successful? (Jade Fire now looked at an imaginary watch on
the left wrist) One year! And another! And another! But my little one, you are
so busy with your wonderful toy, that you have not even realised the beauty of
no time. Let Time do what it will. 'Self' knows and recognizes and in
its greatness permits the 'illusion'. It is a source of much amusement for
'Self' to see this little 'Ego-i' dancing and playing with these little toys.
When the mother watches her little one tearing across the room and becoming an
aeroplane, she stands back and watches and enjoys the laughter of the little one
who is
lost in his little illusion. And she permits this illusion, but she does not
'believe' it. If you 'believe' the illusion, little one, you will strive for
patience. When the illusion can be recognized there is only acceptance and from
acceptance there is only surrender. And surrender to whom? There is no God to
surrender to. In this battle that you fight with yourself, who will the 'enemy'
surrender to? You are all there is. And you surrender to the 'reality' of
you. And then the small little games that you play you will outgrow! Why
don't you tear around the room like aeroplanes now? Because you have grown
enough, not to be lost in that illusion and therefore you have stopped the game.
And that is what is required. Constant Growth, so that slowly you grow
out of one
illusion and then another and then a third. And then you face the reality of
'Self' and then you accept.