Hoffer wrote: “Patience is a by-product of growth – we can bide our time when it is time for our growth. There is no patience in acquisition or in the pursuit of power and fame. Nothing is so impatient as the pursuit of a substitute for growth.” What is Creator’s perspective?

There is much truth and wisdom in this. It is the person who holds loving thoughts because they can even love themselves who will be happiest and most content, no matter their station in life and where they are along the growth curve in terms of their attainments and success in whatever arena one examines, such as career or relationships, having a family, and so on. It is the insecure person who becomes misguided to feel acquisition of power will solve their problems and make them happy, bringing fame and fortune, or at least a bigger paycheck and is willing to be ruthless to get ahead, who is digging a karmic grave for themselves because anything they gain will ultimately be taken away from them if they are bent on causing harm to others in serving themselves. It is those who are empty inside who become desperate. They flit from flower to flower, never holding jobs for long or sustaining a long-term love relationship because they are never satisfied. The deficit is within themselves and the corruption in thinking is to believe someone else can give them what they lack to make up for their own shortcomings, to fill that inner void because love is meager in their own heart. Someone who is well-adjusted, who can feel love, and has inner confidence of who they are, where they stand, and believes in themselves and their ability to learn and grow and be successful has all the time in the world because the joy is in the doing. There is no rush to get to the top. There is too much to enjoy all along the way to the well-adjusted person who has love in their life. We are not talking about self-indulgence or a hedonistic lifestyle but one of sharing, giving, and enjoying the rewards that love brings to all giving and receiving it. It is an empowerment and a powerful tool for learning the best of lessons because the greatest achievements possible in one way or another represent an exchange of love. So learning how to see it, how to feel it, how to share it with others in both giving and receiving, are the essence of the art of living, and that is growth and learning that will serve the person lifelong and an endless future still to come.