The Yogi Green Tea bag I used this morning, said, “Let good things come to you.” Wow, I thought to myself, as I ripped off the little tag to cherish and to use as a reminder. I forget to practice patience sometimes and this was an interesting way to say, “Be patient.” I was told once, that even though we hear things over and over again, until we stop and say, “Ah-ha, I GET IT NOW,” we’ll keep getting reminders. Several years ago, I found a poem, about patience, that really inspired me. The tag from the tea bag, prompted me to find it. I realized when I found it on the internet, that I had read an abbreviated version. I was so grateful to discover the last section. The entire poem is truly, divinely inspired.
“The Lake of Beauty”
by Edward Carpenter
Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world,
and the immense, the boundless treasures that it holds in store.
All that you have within you, all that your heart desires,
all that your nature so specially fits you for -
that or the counterpart of it waits embedded in the great Whole, for you.
It will surely come to you.
Yet equally surely not one moment before its appointed time
will it come. All your crying and fever and reaching out of
hands will make no difference.
Therefore do not begin that game at all.
Do not recklessly spill the waters of your mind
in this direction and in that,
lest you become like a spring lost and dissipated in the desert.
But draw them together into a little compass, and hold them still, so still;
And let them become clear, so clear - so limpid, so mirror-like;
at last the mountains and the sky shall glass themselves in peaceful beauty,
and the antelope shall to descend to drink and to gaze at her reflected image,
and the lion to quench his thirst,
and love himself shall come and bend over and catch his own likeness in you.
