If patience is a virtue, why is it so hard to learn the value of it's meaning?
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My perception is that you are confusing patience with indecision when you say "...have waited all of my life for everything."\n\nPatience isn't waiting; it's tolerance.  "Patience is the ability to keep control over the impulse that rises suddenly when something disagreeable happens."\n\nIf you say, "waiting has just been horrific," for someone to react to you or your requests, I think you know the answer but are not willing to accept it.
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People naturally have very powerful anger instincts. The patience attribute is against one's nature, a social correctness that fights against the need to satisfy one's self by moving on.
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Take it slow. Good things are worth waiting for.
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Because nobody said life was easy. Without struggle you wouldn't become a better person. That's why you get so much obstacles in your way.
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What may be difficult for you may not necessarily be difficult for another individual.It all begins with your intelligance.Some have more than others.
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T.S. Eliot said mankind cannot bear very much reality.  Faith is a psychological crutch, the thing that keeps you from going mad every time you remember that you, too, are going to die and there's nothing to be done about it and it's just so massively unfair.  Naturally nobody would ever admit this.  When getting an education and applying logic and reason are so very difficult and frightening, it's "only human" to take the easy way out.\n\nWhich means, come to think of it, that faith isn't really a virtue! Virtue is supposed to be a matter of making hard choices -- otherwise it's valueless.\n\nI suppose the reason why people value faith (despite all of this) is that they have nothing better to put in its place -- after all, they've already given up on reality.  When you've chosen to discard the very best thing going, what the hell else is there except a fantasy.
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Hmmm, some things just have to be learned the hard way.
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Maybe, maybe not.  But, I wouldn't rush it.  Whoever said that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all was obviously never in a relationship that made them miserable.  \n\nIf you are looking for a TRUE love for the REST of your life, then patience is your best friend.  I recommend working on bettering yourself and staying busy.  It makes the time go faster and you grow as an individual before taking on the responsibility of another person's emotions and well-being.  \n\nGood Luck.
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If God were not patient, he would not be currently putting up with you and me.\n\nBy the way, since you are priding yourself on taking a bible verse out of context, why don't you interpret this one for me?\n\n"...if..." -The Holy Bible\n\nDo you get it?
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I think you make some interesting points - words definitely have limitations for the definer and the interpretter.  Its always a rhetoric game and only real thieves hide behind definitions to justify their actions.  As for morality - this is not a truth - it is a social norm - and each society determines what is or isn't moral based on their level of consciousness.  As long as we are trapped in words - we are limiting our consciousness.
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it's a matter of gaining the trust of the person. once you have that trust then the other person is more willing and pliable. not to mention some people are just that guillible or naive.
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I've asked myself that same question for the last fifty years and I have concluded that it is because we are taught this all of our lives. For example, " nice guys finish last", "the good die young", and " only the strong survive". But, we are also taught that blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth, and blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God!!\nI'm not a preacher, just a " nice guy" who has lived a long time in a mean cruel world.\nHang in there girl and remember that the mean, cruel aggressive people may get to the top faster...but they always fall harder!!
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Until they truly understand.  Be more patient than they; it pays off.
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The secret is to practice, practice, practice. Of course its hard work, but you have to push yourself through it to get what you want. Remember when you first were learning to read, and how difficult it was at first? If you persist at doing things no matter how difficult, you can't help but get better.
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taking a deep breath and trying to imagine yourself in a peadeful place.......I struggle very much with impatience, and even though I still get very impatient, I have become quite good at hiding it, it just takes practice and work.\nGood luck!
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patience.\nthoughtfullness.\nthe ability to think about things in more than one way.\nthe ability to be wrong and not freak out.\nthe abilitiy to know how to talk about certain subjects to certain people.\nrespect for other people.
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Nothing is difficult to understand, if you know what you are reading! but, if one is reading a fiction book such as this one, and try to find truth in it, then it becomes a problem.  The problem we must understand and separate the fact from fiction, and when you take a book mix the fact with the fiction, some will Wonder where does the fact ends and the fiction begins, and visa verse!\nThe Dead Sea Scrolls were found by young boy, not a scholar by accident, and it has nothing that speaks of the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalen.\nSecond, the architecture and painting are inaccurate.  There are many mistakes, and the reasoning behind what some of the architectures means, for example PS, is actually SP, refers to Saint Peter, not the Prier of Sion.  The rose line, the roses etc. to many to mention them all.  But, the point is, when you miss information, a person who is not knowledgeable of what they read may not know, what is the truth! per say!\n\nNothing is so difficult, only if you know and don't get taken in a ride.  "If you repeat a lie long enough, and repeat it as often, people will not be able to differentiate between the lie and the truth!".  The key is to know what is the illusion, and what is not!  Our weakness is we are weak, and we question and always tempted to find the truth.  However, somewhere down the road, we get astray away with fictions that we tend to even remember what was we were looking for in the first place!\n\nHope that somehow helped, or I might have added a bit more for you to ponder upon.