This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.

Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.