ATTAINING INNER STILLNESS...WAIT

On learning to live the still more spiritual growth we seek: We learn, slowly if we're learning for keeps, to ask an actual person to be our mentor. Then we seek that mentor's advice.

The two most important words we would do well to remember to speak in response to a mentor's advice: "OK. How?"

Then we run that advice by the God of our own understanding. And then we wait. Ah, there it is: Waiting, that which impatience negates. This is the cosmic part where everything, i.e., nothing, happens, and that words cannot describe. 

To sit and wait on the Lord is to use the patience we already have within...to pray for patience is to waste our breath and God's time. We find our patience by using it, waiting...which isn't to say idly. In waiting we learn the self-discipline of ever turning our thoughts inward...repeatedly and then some. To realize a quieted mind takes as long as it takes. The discipline is in letting it.

There are many starter quotes to use to get to our inner stillness. Other than the usual, such as the Father and I are One, a few others are:

I was born when all I once feared—I could love. —Rabia

Before God, our wounds are our glory -- Lady Julian of Norwich

And my favorite ponderable: Let us pray to God that we may be free of God that we may gain the truth....-- Meister Eckhart 

God is not available on demand...only on receipt.

Thank you.