Positive Patience

Nancy pointed out that the Experiments book had a good description of patience as "a dimension that measures how we are responding inwardly to what is happening in the material world." I also found some quotes on the topic of positive patience from the readings that sheds a little different light on the subject for me. Positive patience doesn't mean letting others walk over you.

From Edgar Cayce Reading 3161-1:

That primarily needed is patience, persistence and consistence. Then we would define for the entity what we mean by the entity having patience--in an active, positive manner and not merely as a passive thing. Taking or enduring hardships, or censure, or idiosyncrasies of others, is not necessarily patience at all. It may become merely that of being a drudge not only to self but an outlet of expression from others that may never be quite satisfying because there is no resistance. Passive patience, to be sure, has its place; but consider patience rather from the precepts of God's relationship to man: love unbounded is patience. Love manifested is patience. Endurance at times is patience, consistence ever is patience.

From Edgar Cayce Reading 1402-1:

As has been indicated, a little more patient, a little more tolerant, a little more humble. But . . .not a tolerance that becomes timid--this would make rebellion in self. Not a patience that is not positive. Not an humbleness that becomes morbid or lacking in beauty. For as orderliness is a part of thy being, so let consistency--as persistency--be a part of thy being.