Joshua Waitzkin Quotes

Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.

when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.

I try to take each moment at a time.

Above all, what I learned from my Sensei was how to wait. I believe I learned the meaning of waiting on one foot. If I understand anything in this life, it is how to wait. It is not an answer. But for me it is everything.

We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.

You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

Find patience in the breath of life.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

It's hard to be patient. It's hard to sit back and actually wait and allow everything - just let it be.

Just stay present in the moment, and what will come will come.

When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.

Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you.

Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

If you are trying to get from here to there, and you already are late, you know that you are late, and yet you are aligned with the present moment while you are stuck in a traffic jam. You are totally accepting of the moment.

Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.