Patience
is an enormously supportive and even magical practice. It’s a way of
completely shifting the fundamental human habit of trying to resolve
things by either going to the right or the left, labeling things “good”
or labeling them “bad.” It’s the way to develop fearlessness, the way to
contact the seeds of war and the seeds of lasting peace—and to decide
which ones we want to nurture.
Excerpted from Practicing Peace by Pema Chödrön
