Patience — the lie you were sold for a "sweet" reward
Patience is mental. It’s a restraint of the mind’s desire to control, force, and dominate. That makes patience a reaction.
You cannot initiate patience. It has to be a response to impatience and anxiety.
Presence is a state. It exists. Not as a reaction. As a choice. Something you initiate.
And, you just naturally respond and perceive differently from that state.
Have you experienced the difference between patience and presence? Whether in yourself or another?
You can tell a patient response. And you can tell someone who is just so purely in presence.
They are timeless. They are in the eternal.
We all have experience with being patient. Or at least trying to be patient 😅
Presence is a way to lead life all the time. In everything.
Feeling it. All of it. The life of it. The aliveness of it.
Being so immersed in it that you have no thought of how far or how long or how soon.
Presence doesn’t require patience. Patience doesn’t even make sense in the state of presence and eternity.
Because you are connected to the deep knowing of the inevitable happening.
Patience is a calculation. It’s a game the mind is playing with itself.
In reality, you don’t actually let go.
You just create a nicer story to suppress the anxiety.
It’s the original numbing.
And to sell you patience, the mind says:
The reward of patience is sweet.
But here’s what I tell you, what your soul says:
The reward of presence is immediate and abundant
Can you tell the difference?
It’s not chasing dopamine through instant gratification.
Nor is it delaying the reward through a well dressed story called patience.
The “reward” is alive in every moment. Unclaimed.
Of course that makes no sense to the mind.
Because all the mind games collapse.
And the anxious ego has been left purposeless.
The reward of presence is so infinite and abundant, it multiplies with every moment.
An exponential buildup into ecstasy.
Expressed into every movement. In every moment.
Ahh, that richness.
Once you know it, you’ll never settle for the cheap rewards of dopamine and patience.
Because it’s not a reward you chase, earn, wait for, or become worthy of.
It’s there. All the freaking time. Waiting for you to collect. To connect.
Patience is sold to you as a virtue.
But question why you even need Patience in a state as beautiful as Presence.
Presence is not a drug that numbs you out of life.
It squeezes you back into life. And injects a high-octane dose of life back into you!
That is the reward and the treasure you miss when you settle for patience. Feeling ecstatically alive in every single moment.
And I invite you to claim it.