Patience · limbo · bardo · waiting · in-between

To live in the gap
between the moment that is expiring
and the one that is arising

Tibetan Book of the Dead

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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

—Khaled Hosseini

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I am a patient boy
I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait

Fugazi

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Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.

—French proverb

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You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.

—Craig Bruce

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Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

—Kahlil Gibran

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The strongest of all warriors are these two—Time and Patience.

—Leo Tolstoy

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The waiting is the hardest part.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

—Bertrand Russell

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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

—Winnie-the-Pooh

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I will wait for you.

Ani DiFranco

Poem: Waiting for a Poem

Poem: Waiting Room

Poems on waiting

Poems on patience

Heart of a Dog

Waiting games

On waiting

What if the thing you’re waiting for never arrives?

Bardo

What’s a bardo?

The bardo of breaking up

The eight bardos

The four points of letting go in the bardo

The great in-between

On Buddhist psychology

In between spaces

Bardo pond

Poem: Bardo