patience...................

 

Youth walked before me and I followed him until we came to a distant field.  There he stopped, and gazed at the clouds that drifted over the horizon like a flock of white lambs.  Then he looked at the trees whose naked branches pointed toward the sky as if praying to Heaven for the return of their foliage.

     And I said, "Where are we now, Youth?

     And he replied, "We are in the field of Bewilderment.  Take heed."

     And I said, "Let us go back at once, for this desolate place affrights me, and the sight of the clouds and the naked trees saddens me."

     And he replied, "Be patient.  Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."

-Kahlil Gibran, The Voice of The Master