{"id":388,"date":"2011-04-22T10:55:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T15:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=388"},"modified":"2011-04-22T10:55:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T15:55:26","slug":"infinite-patience-brings-immediate-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/infinite-patience-brings-immediate-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinite Patience Brings Immediate Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPatience is power.<br \/>\nPatience is not an absence of action;<br \/>\nrather it is &#8220;timing&#8221;<br \/>\nit waits on the right time to act,<br \/>\nfor the right principles<br \/>\nand in the right way.\u201d<br \/>\n<em> &#8211; Fulton J. Sheen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/strong><br \/>\n??? ????? ?? ????, ??? ?????? ?? ??? |<br \/>\n??? ??? ?????? ????, ??? ??? ?? ??? ||<\/p>\n<p><strong>transliterated:<\/strong><br \/>\nSheel, kshama jab upaje, alag dhristi tab hoye|<br \/>\nBin sheel pahoonche nahi, lakh kahe jo koye||<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen patience, forgiveness and determination surface, one\u2019s vision and perception becomes true |<br \/>\nWithout patience and determination, the truth will never become visible||<\/p>\n<p><strong>My thoughts:<\/strong><br \/>\nNature is our best teacher of the virtue of patience. Look all around you. Tempests, hurricanes, drought, blinding sunlight and long frosts all beat up and even destroy all of man\u2019s creations. Nature, however, always comes back with a smile and a bright new green to welcome the new dawn. It is implacable in its pursuit of the morn, despite all obstacles in its path.<\/p>\n<p>Patience, of necessity, fosters the company of forgiveness and determination. We need determination to wait out the storms of life, and forgiveness to give up temporary losses, for the morning will surely always come, and it will surely bring new bounties!<\/p>\n<p>This, then, is our true strength \u2013 to be patient, and do the right thing at the right time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPatience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is &#8220;timing&#8221; it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.\u201d &#8211; Fulton J. Sheen Kabir &#8211; The couplet ??? ????? ?? ????, ??? ?????? ?? ??? | ??? ??? ?????? ????, ??? ??? ??&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabir","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}