Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You're able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you get caught up in prejudice, bias, and aggression. You develop an enthusiasm for no longer watering those negative seeds, from now until the day you die. And, you begin to think of your life as offering endless opportunities to start to do things differently.

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes you up and what makes you fall asleep. No one else can really sort out for you what to accept - what opens up your world - and what to reject - what seems to keep you going round and round in some kind of repetitive misery.