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(Once again Jane talked about “watching my impatient moods.” She really wants improvements to take place much more quickly than they are — really fast. I said I thought that maybe her impatience was meant to serve as an impetus to her healing speed. “At least it shows your body you want to do something,” I said. “What if you had no impatience or impetus?”

You are correct about Ruburt’s impatiences: He is to use it (underlined) as a tool, however, and not let it use him. That is, the impatience is indeed meant as an impetus, as a stimulus to further activity and motion — so he must think of that impatience as a friend, not as an adversary.

(11:09.) Ruburt is impatient on purpose, of course. His impatience is meant to remind him forcibly that he is indeed serious about his recovery, and assures him that he will not “fall back.” [...]

[...] Ruburt’s impatience, then, should not be overdone, for then it defeats its purpose. [...]

[...] However, she remembered that Seth had said she was to make a friend of impatience. But her impatience is growing, no doubt about it, and if it continues to do so I’m sure it will bring about — even force — changes in her behavior and attitude. [...]

[...] Remind him to accept impatience as a friend, meant to lead him to the fulfillment of his desire. [...]

[...] It developed that she’s feeling more impatient, and really wants to be able to sit up — say in a lounge chair like the people from the infirmary mentioned. [...]

[...] He has been impatient with you and I have been impatient with him for being impatient with you. [...]

When you showed impatience with his progress it was sometimes a natural impatience, and sometimes Nebene’s dissatisfaction with a student who should, with those abilities, do better. [...]

[...] At other times you would say “Be careful,” impatiently, “Watch where you are going. [...]

[...] Help him to trust the spontaneous self, and as you shall see, these ideas are indeed directly opposite to those of your educations, so do not be impatient.

[...] She said she felt “real impatient, that I want to get up and do something—you know what I mean? [...]

(I told her that impatience was a good sign, that it might furnish additional impetus to recover. [...]

Ruburt’s body is completely reorienting itself according to his new beliefs, so remind him not to become impatient.

Now it will help if you take it for granted that under some circumstances, dealing with Ruburt’s idea of authority, he has difficulty expressing dissatisfaction, or any normal impatience... [...]

[...] He was impatient with you at times for he remembered you as a companion in male pursuits, and bitterly resented your femininity.

[...] In a past life you had no use for women, and therefore chose an existence in which you were feminine; not only feminine but endowed with those qualities that you had particularly disliked; because you feared those qualities you therefore lived with them, and to some extent learned to understand them, though you are still left with some impatience when you see them in others.

[...] This portion is either simply impatient, and perhaps not trusting of the snail’s pace at which we seem to move, or it doesn’t even know that a return home is imminent. [...]

Now: particularly, tell him not to become impatient, to proceed as he is, trusting his inclinations: and most of all trusting the validity on and the grace of his being.

This is something different, representing on your part an impatience, an urge to step out strongly as far as your own work is concerned. [...]

Simply as a matter of temperament, this time of year has always made him impatient. [...]

[...] It is of prime importance then that he not become impatient, continue as he has been doing; and give us a moment.

[...] You were impatient.

He was hurt and angry, but instead of thinking “I will walk all right, and be impatient with you sometime.” [...]

[...] The rituals are more obvious now, and to some extent he becomes more impatient. [...]

He is more embarrassed now by his walking because of a healthy impatience that is understandable, but this must be kept under control so that it does not hamper him. [...]

[...] “I just get impatient, thinking about all of it,” she said.)

[...] Tell him to be patient with his own natural impatience —to have a relaxed attitude even about that.

[...] Tell him again not to be impatient, and this applies to you also. [...]