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“Genius is eternal patience.” – Michelangelo
What does it mean to be patient? On the surface, it may involve some self-control… resisting the impulse to speak or act. However, at the depth it is rooted in something quite different.
The Transcendent is infinitely patient. There is no time. There is infinite silence… infinite peace… infinite love, infinite understanding. The Transcendent stands under all that is… underlies all that is… understands all that is. It is the wellspring of infinite intelligence, infinite wisdom, infinite love, and infinite creativity. It is the very source of all the intelligence and creativity that birthed this entire universe. It is the silent, eternal witness.
By resting into that and living from that place within, you give nature the time and conditions required to well up through you with the full grandeur of all those qualities… intelligence, wisdom, love, creativity, understanding… i.e. the genius which is eternal patience… Divinity… Your True Nature.
Awaiting two births right now, one as a birth doula and one as a postpartum doula. And shifting as the days and nights go by an neither baby has chosen their time yet. It is a lovely time, when I wake up in my bed in the morning not having been called to a birth. Peacefully, I get to meditate, do my mantra and yoga.
I have a tendency to be in life more slowly now. I must admit I had some frustration with the frenetic pace of life at the ashram, always doing something. It felt right to me to take the 3 pm pause to have a cup of tea and out my feet up, staring out at the mountains it the rain before meditation. Maybe I appreciated it more.
How profoundly beautiful. I have such a peaceful feeling in me after reading this.
Thank you Brahmarshi. Looking forward to seeing you this weekend!
Wowwww……exquisitely beautiful.
ah, infinite peace, love, understanding, space, ah….what a great pre-holiday gift……
“The Transcendent is silent, eternal witness…” beautiful!!!
Dear Brahmarshi,
Thank you for Being Patience… with me in particular. Your ability to rest in Patience gave me the space to unfold and naturally release some of the mechanism that held the curiosities/glamors which have distracted me for so long. This ignorance kept me from seeing how I was caught by them and meaninglessly interacted with them. ~ Thank you ~
I trust that with your continued Patience, Brahmarshi, this small awareness will spread to dismantle more rooms of illusion held in my psyche.
Blessings to you,
Gloria