“Adopt the pace of nature;
her secret is patience.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When I run after what I think I want,
my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety;
if I sit in my own place of patience,
what I need flows to me,
and without pain.”
~ Rumi
“Do you have patience to wait until your mud settles,
and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving until the right action arrives by itself?
~ Lao Tzu (Toa Te Ching)
*photo by W. Holcombe, all rights reserved. Please do not use without permission.
Picnic with Ants 
Reblogged this on Lorraine's frilly freudian slip and commented:
Patience. Lao Tzu’s “Do you have patience to wait until your mud settles, and the water is clear?” What a wonderful definition of patience!
Yes, I need to learn to “adopt the pace of nature” because “my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety.”
Thanks Wendy for choosing three quotes about patience.
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I’m so glad you liked them Lorraine.
I took the picture at the garden yesterday. 😀
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It’s a gorgeous picture — thanks for sharing that as well. Did you others so we can visit the gardens with you?
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You will see lots of pictures from there here. A trip to the garden reaped an abundance of photos. ♡
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I needed to be reminded about patience today. I always wish I could get morre done faster–LOL! 😉
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Patience. Oh nooooo… Patience and sitting still are not my friends. Maybe I should take them out for lunch. Wanna come? One day Wen, you and I will have lunch!~Kim
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I’ll take you up on that lunch date!!
Sooner rather than later….but I will be patient. 😉
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Ah-ha! got it! HA!
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A look back at 1 year ago.
I’ve been looking at past posts and reading more on how to cope with stress using mindfulness techniques. This post reminded me that I need to be patient, not just with others, but also with myself.
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