Patience is often defined as the ability to tolerate extended delays without suffering. So, what does one do when they have run out of patience? Ignoring the concept that one has as much patience as they choose to have. It can be applied simply: “if you have little to say that is constructive, then it is better to be silent”.

That even within the emotional turmoil and frustration that one can allow themselves on, if patience is long gone, then opt for silence. Until such a time that they are able to regain their composure, many a word said in the heat of turmoil has been regretted almost instantly. Silence is to provoke expression within it, that one may feel all that they have from this moment, and yet portray it externally only as silence.

As many monks do with their vows of silence, it is silence externally, to move the focus of self from the external, and to direct it inward, at the thoughts that rage like the ocean from how one feels. To dissect it, diffuse it, innerstand it.

Rushing so quickly to externalize an internal issue… recognize why you would even be given the opportunity to allow such a feeling to manifest from an emotion, and rather than lash out, cry out in anguish that the moment is far different from how you’d wish it to be… work within on the root cause that had exposed such a delicate reaction to be possible in the first place.

Meditate.

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