Patience takes many forms, but there is no alternative to it. Impatience not only wastes time but also energy.
Impatience has tentacles that pull all near it into its grasp. Impatience makes the so-called source of your impatience last longer. You fritter away time with impatience. Why be impatient when you can be patient?
Impatience rushes up front to get a seat in front. Patience is more like a wise toad who looks all around.
You feel impatience when you impose your sense of timing upon another. Or, when you are impatient and disgruntled with yourself, you impose arbitrary restrictions upon yourself. Impatience and frustration go hand in hand. Both deceive you. Both take you away from the point.
Impatience shows a lack of understanding. When you are in a hurry and the person ahead of you is slow, impatience rises. When you realize that the slow person ahead of you has a broken leg, your impatience dissolves. Be understanding even where there is no broken leg.
Impatience says that your need for haste is more important than another's need for time.
There is a timer within each of you that may be set differently. But no one's timer is meant to be set fast, although you may have speeded yours up and set it to fast time. Speeding, you drop things. Speeding, you carelessly misread things.
Allow for the pace of another. Existing in a physical body as you do, you squirm and that squirming you call impatience. If you did not have a physical body, you would not squirm, and you would be at ease, and you would not know impatience.
Your soul knows not of time, and, therefore, your soul lives in timeless Eternity.
Consider the individual mind as part of your body. Ego runs rampant in a physical body. Ego is a halfway point between mind and its imagined time.
There would not be impatience unless there were ego. Impatience is an invention of the mind and ego. You must see by now that the ego likes to make trouble.
You take a car ride, and the road is smooth. But ego, as a traveling companion, gets out of the car, plants a few rocks in the road with glee, hops back in, and delights in your frustration and eggs you on, innocent of the role it played. "Who, me?" says ego. "I'm just here to guide you and to let you know when you should protest."
Impatience is a protest about being kept waiting. Truly, you will be more patient with yourself when you allow patience for another.
Preclude yourself from saying Hurry up. A Human Being is not a horse or mule that you put your spurs to. Is life really a race to see who comes in first? Aid rather than hasten. Do you see how impatience meddles?
If you really want things to go faster, be patient. If you want things to take longer, be impatient.
The cause of your impatience is your impatience. There is no other.
Perhaps it is your habit to be in a hurry, so you carry that vibration, and it is not smooth. Even when your goal is enlightenment, hurrying does not hold you in good stead.
Patience would not exist except as a foil to impatience. Patience is no more a virtue than impatience is.
There is a pace in the world in which time seems to exist. You are not the controller of the world's mistaken time. And there is no need for you to make time a priority. That which you call time has its own sense of itself. But since time does not exist, you need not hasten.