Our Theme is Impatience. The superficial aspects of impatience are somewhat easy to see. But what is it and why do we have it.
In part when we are impatient we feel we are missing out, at times a restless desire for change or excitement. Somewhere in our impatience is the passion we have to be served, to be in control, to be obeyed—to be like God. Pride can be our biggest stumbling block to growing in patience.
Efforts to relax can fail because I am impatient. I want a result, I want to get to the end, before I have really begun. I may try to reproduce the sensation of relaxing so I can move on to the next stage. Can I find the movement of impatience in me and release that?
Is there an end to the process of relaxing. The final stage of relaxation is when we are in unity with the source, when the small I Will finally surrenders.
In JGB’s book Witness he, describes his extraordinary journey … ‘The battle to subdue self-will, arrogance and impatience have to be rigorousl’
We protect the illusion of being a self. How do we come to have that illusion, this artificial-self that is ‘man-made.’
Three places our activity can be in contact with our essence; Through our sense perceptions, eating food and breathing. How are these effected by our impatience.