if you can wait and not be tired by waiting…. (If by Rudyard Kipling)
The painting is called "Patientia" by Pieter Bruegel. Look closely, Patience is sitting quietly, chained to a block, praying in a world gone mad.
The caption, by the early Catholic theologian Lactantius, reads: Patience is the bearing with equanimity of the evils which are either inflicted or happen to fall on us.
Therefore the just and wise man, because he exercises virtue, has patience in himself; but he will be altogether free from this if he shall suffer no adversity. On the other hand, the man who lives in prosperity is impatient because he suffers nothing.
Getting what we want makes it difficult to wait for what we don't have. To survive, as Bruegel shows, you have to tune out the noise and look away from the madness because we can’t always get what we want when we want. Yet we can still be at peace in the interim. Some count to ten or go for a walk to gain a new perspective I prefer gong baths to elicit a state of neutrality and clarity of mind. Remember all good things come to those who wait.
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