Time is an excellent test of how much you really want something. The more we stretch the space between a desire and its fulfilment, the more we test the strength of that desire. Do you really want it enough to invest the time and work needed despite no guaranteed outcome?
The fascinating thing about time is that once you achieve your goal or fulfil your desire, the time spent becomes irrelevant. It's not a cost any more, as I shared yesterday.
Patience is an intentional practice. It's not merely waiting for something to happen but the deliberate turning of time into a transformative energy.
Yet, patience asks a lot. In particular, when dealing with the unknown, you may feel the rush to find out, know the answer or the solution, and quickly get to the comfort of the known. And in doing that, you will miss out on all the possibilities hiding in the liminal space between the known questions and the unknown answers.
Patience is a superpower.
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, or books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." - from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke