Humility and Patience

A woman who takes my class emailed this Dalai Lama quote to me after reading the posting titled: The Day I Almost Got My Ass Kicked..."

"I think that there is a very close connection between humility and patience. Humility involves having the capacity to take a more confrontational stance, having the capacity to retaliate if you wish, yet deliberately deciding not do so. That is what I would call genuine humility. I think that true tolerance or patience has a component or element of self -discipline & restraint - the realization that you could have acted otherwise, you could have adopted a more aggressive approach, but decided not to do so."

- The 14th Dalai Lama