Patience and Perseverance

I heard once that perseverance pays off, and I must add, eventually.  Thus we need to connect patience with perseverance and we have a much better chance of the payoff.  Herewith, an excerpt from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

We are, quite naturally,

impatient in everything to reach the end

without delay.

We should like to skip

the intermediate stages.

We are impatient of being

On the way to something unknown

something new,

And yet it is the law of all progress

that it is made by passing through

some stages of instability ---

And that it may take a very long time.

Your ideas mature gradually -

let them grow,

let them shape themselves,

without undue haste.
Don't try to force them on,

as though you could be today

what time (that is to say, grace and

circumstances acting

on your own good will)

will make you tomorrow.

......accept the anxiety of

feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.