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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Patience Is a Skill

By Amy Gross
O, The Oprah Magazine  |  From the September 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
Someone once said that anger is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die. Impatience is similarly ridiculous. You're in a rush, a salesperson is moving in slow motion, and you're ready to kill. The problem is, the person you're torturing is your own pitiful self: Your nerves are shredding, stress hormones are streaking through your body, and your heart's racing with scenarios of the tragedies that will ensue from being late. And you're not accomplishing a thing. Your frenzy is useless. You're trying to squirm out of the present into the future: Good luck with that. You are irrevocably and inescapably stuck in the moment—your feet are tied to it; you are a spoke in time's wheel.

Read more here:
http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Four-Ways-to-Be-Patient

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