Why You Can't Be Present and Patient at the Same Time

[This is an excerpt of my forthcoming book, Seeds of Light.]What is patience? If patience is not being in the present moment but looking ahead to something that’s not in the present, you are in a state of lack. Your mind isfocused on negation, what’s missing, what’s not here, and not on what’s here, what’s right before your very eyes at this very moment in time. You are not present when you are not patient. And patience is a kind of a impossibility, yes, impossibility because if you are patie...