Patience and tolerance

Patience and tolerance are, to me, very different things from each other.

Patience I think is faster , more earthly . It is that respite that we must have in order not to break everything by impulse. And to be patient you have to accept the facts. There are things that can not be different and it is no use to be impatient with them. Like traffic, for example. It’s one car after another, you can not get over it, you need to stay calm and expect to walk. So practice patience: listen to music, watch the city, people on the side, think about life. Do anything but get irritated, because the irritation will not make the front car ride.

And here comes the long run of patience: tolerance. Tolerance is more related to the macro-environment, to humanity, to the world. It is to be patient with the larger and more time consuming things to solve or accept.Tolerance does not lie, for example, with what a person does , but with what he is . And then to tolerate is to adapt to the other, to accept what the other is. If you are able to tolerate the differences of human beings, you can relate to all kinds of people, and learn from all the particular and different talents they may have. And the most beautiful of all: it can feed the talents of each one simply by being tolerant.

A good exercise of patience and tolerance is to perceive our own limitations. When you realize your limitation, you understand that the other also has his own. And then apply the old saying: Do not do to the other what you do not want them to do to you. If everyone has limitations, everyone must have patience with the limitations of others.

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