Patience
"Patience is our unrecognized capacity; patience is our unrecognized achievement. Capacity succeeds; achievement proceeds. Patience is our soul's light. This light is always unconditional.
"Physical power, vital power and mental power are no match for patience-power. When physical power is misused against someone, the patience-power of that person can eventually triumph. In the outer life and the inner life, patience-power will eventually succeed. Human power is in no way different from destructive animal power if we do not aspire, if we do not long for truth, light and beauty.
"God created this world. In His vast creating He considers patience to be His dear friend. God and His Patience are inseparable. God's creation is not complete; perfection is still a far cry. God, with His infinite Patience-Light, aspires for perfection in and through each creation of His. God feels that His Patience-light has a divine, magic power that can transform the dark past into the golden future.
"Man needs patience in order to discover what he truly is. God needs patience in order to make man feel not only that he is God's Son, God's dearest creation, but also that he is exactly the same as God. Man has to realize what he eternally is: God himself. Man is now god veiled; with patience-light man will unveil his inner divinity. Man is God yet to be consciously and constantly realized, and God is man yet to be manifested totally, completely and unmistakably here on earth.
"Deliberately and consciously man claims something as his own which is not actually his: ignorance. There is only one thing that man can truly claim as his own: God. Nothing less and nothing more. Unless and until man comes to realize this, he will never know who he is. Man is divinity's reality. This is the only thing that he has to discover: his real reality, which is dormant within him.
"Even when he is in the desire-life, each man should realize that within him is the God -seed. That God-seed is going to germinate eventually into a plant, and from a plant it will grown into a huge banyan tree. Again, when the same person enters into the spiritual life, he has to feel that the fruit, the eternal fruit, is already there for him to eat. In the desire-world he has to discover God the seed so that he can grow and grow is aspiration. In the aspiration-world he has to discover God the fruit so that he can recognize what he eternally is.
"Patience is our revealing and revealed faith in God, the Supreme Pilot, and our revealed and revealing faith in our own existence. Patience is our faith in our own discovery that we are not only of God but also for God.
"The human cry that climbs up from the inmost recesses of our heart makes friends with patience in order to see the smiling face of the Eternal Pilot. Again, the eternal pilot makes friends with patience so that one day He will see in humanity's cry the perfect liberation, everlasting salvation, complete illumination and total transformation of humanity."