Concept
Patience
Staying with something slow without abandoning it or forcing it.
19 passages · 11 traditions
Astrology
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On retrogrades and timingMercury turns retrograde three or four times a year, and for about three weeks the sky suggests review rather than launch. The traditional advice is narrow and practical: this is a period fo…DivinationA divination practice
On Saturn transitsSaturn does not move quickly, and neither will this. When Saturn crosses a sensitive point in the chart it does not remove the difficulty; it slows everything down around it until the diffic…DivinationA divination practice
On the cardinal turnThe twelve signs are sorted three ways, and the one people meet last is mode. Four signs begin a season — Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn — and the tradition calls them cardinal. Four hold t…
Buddhist
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Majjhima Nikāya 118, “Mindfulness of Breathing”It's when a mendicant—gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut—sits down cross-legged, sets their body straight, and brings mindfulness to the present. Just mindful…ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Sutta Nipāta 1.8, “The Discourse on Love”Let them be capable and upright, very upright, easy to speak to, gentle and humble; content and unburdensome, unbusied, living lightly, alert, with senses calmed, courteous, not fawning on f…
Christian
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1 Corinthians 13:4–7Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; d…ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Ecclesiastes 3:1–8For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to ki…PracticeAn instruction for practice
The Practice of the Presence of God, Fourth ConversationHe told me that all consists in one hearty renunciation of everything which we are sensible does not lead to GOD; that we might accustom ourselves to a continual conversation with Him, with…
Confucian
Hindu
Jewish
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Pirke Avot 2:20–21"The day is short, the task is great, the laborers are sluggish, the reward is much, and the Master of the house is urgent." He also used to say, "It is not thy duty to complete the work, bu…ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Pirke Avot 4:1Ben Zoma said, "Who is wise? He who learns from all men, as it is said, 'from all my teachers have I gotten understanding.' Who is mighty? He who controls his passions, as it is said, 'He th…ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) 3:1–8To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to…
New Thought
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Secular reflection
Stoic
Taoist
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Tao Teh King, ch. 63(It is the way of the Tao) to act without (thinking of) acting; to conduct affairs without (feeling the) trouble of them; to taste without discerning any flavour; to consider what is small a…ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Tao Teh King, ch. 8The highest excellence is like (that of) water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which al…