Patience is not only a virtue, but an attitude to life which can be achieved solely through attention to the inner journey. I have to confess that I am not one to whom patience comes naturally. Rather than waiting quietly for doors to open, my instinct is to race forward and tear them off their hinges to see what lies behind them. . . . I have been slowly and incrementally learning that all my desperation to lay hold of the future does little except devalue the present.
— Mike Riddell, Sacred Journey