Patience

The patience is the Aptitude somebody for to control vis-a-vis waiting, to remain calm in a situation of tension or vis-a-vis difficulties, or the quality of Persévérance.

Patience is, throughout the world and the Croyance S, an essential quality necessary for that which aspires to the Sagesse. Like the Meditation, patience is acquired and exerted; she asks for an effort of concentration and self-control which is in general opposite with natural agitation, innate impatience. If daily patience “is sometimes rewarded” by a good - for example wise waiting of the small child to which one offers a gift rewards some - religious patience is a key for the result of oneself and the same moral value does not have exactly. The common direction of patience corresponds to a reality which is to be distinguished from spiritual patience, essential component of many beliefs.

Historical and ontological elements

But in all the cases, patience is opposed to the meditation by its bond with the Attente. One can show patience in answer to a Désir, in the hope to finally obtain that whose immediate access is impossible or dangerous. The meditation proceeds contrary to an abandonment of any waiting, the goal to reach being precisely that of a calm interior where waiting, the desire, agitation, in short the future and personal projection are forgotten. Patience is caused, voluntarily or not, and she is exerted in a conscious way like an answer to a desire. For this reason, the religions are meant on the point that the man is not “patient vis-a-vis his unquestionable death”, because the life is crowned for the believer and patience is the work of a whole virtuous existence. However, certain sects developed an opposite belief and a morbid vision of patience like element of wisdom, the such Ordre of the Solar Temple.

The idea that is made the man of patience varied significantly during the centuries, while following the sociological changes major. Patiences of the wandering hunter, the monk copyist, the knight-errant and the shareholder out of purse are not completely the same ones: they differ not only with an aim towards which all these men tend, but also in their manner of expressing itself. It passed successively from the statute conscious of need to that of Vertu, then with that of quality. The patience described by Saint-Augustin, moral strength vis-a-vis the evils born of passion, left place in the companies occidentalized with a more pragmatic patience, inertia reactionary in a system where speed, the change and personal adaptivity are daily realities. The way in which patience, in its substance, adapts to that which in fact proof tends to show that, like many qualities of the heart, patience is spiritual by decree: it remains easily corruptible according to the goal fixed by that which exerts it, and this is why it is all at the same time a test and an access road to wisdom since centuries, never an aim in itself.

Lévinas analyzed the relationship between waiting and patience in an original way, by considering that what distinguishes impatience from patience, it is not the preference for the Présent, but the absence of goal conscious Futur. Where one is carried and would like that time is shorter, the other shown patience and decides on the contrary to wait without anything to wish in return: it undergoes waiting. The patience of Lévinas is a patience which waits, but whose waiting is carried by no will, which is contingent. It is the shape of opening on the unexpected one, which Lévinas indicates by the formula of “responsibility for others. ” This inversion of the concept is integrated well in Eastern spiritualities, in particular.

Quotations

  • patience is largest of the prayers. - Bouddha

  • patience comes better to end from the companies that the force. - Plutarque
  • patience is a tree of which the roots are bitter and the tasty fruits. - Arab Proverbe
  • Patience is a tree; bitter are the roots but the fruit are very soft. At the end of patience it y' has the sky… - Saharan Proverb
" Patience is mother of all the vertus"

See too

Patience gives a direction to the time which passes…

Random links:William Crawford Williamson | Christmas-Antoine Pluche | The Black Cat | Oedura monilis | Arnaud Miniyalo | Petite_pillule_déchiquetée