How To Be More Patient
Patience and Forbearance
Who Is Waith?
Waith is described by the Community of Terra Lux as an Archangel who has communicated through a channel named Mushiba since 1987. Waith identifies as belonging to the Angelic Kingdom, a level of consciousness devoted to service, and speaks of his role as one of guidance ~ helping people understand both the concrete dimension of daily life on Earth and the abstract or spiritual dimension underlying it. Among the many subjects Waith addresses ~ growth, Self-love, service to others ~ Patience is one of the most frequently returned to, described as a lifelong lesson every Soul is here to learn.
How Waith Describes Patience
In Waith’s teaching, Patience is not simply a personality trait or a matter of willpower. It is a Universal lesson ~ one that every Soul continues working on throughout the whole of its journey, not something a person finishes learning and sets aside. Waith connects Patience closely to unconditional love and to full acceptance of what he calls the Universal Flow ~ the natural unfolding of events, timing, and circumstance. To resist that flow ~ to insist that things move faster, differently, or on our own schedule ~ is where impatience takes root.
A recurring theme in Waith’s teachings is that Patience is ultimately an expression of trust ~ trust that the timing of our lives, and of other people’s growth, is unfolding as it should. Waith also teaches Patience is closely tied to Self-forgiveness and to being nonjudgemental ~ both toward others and toward Self ~ suggesting that impatience often has more to do with an inner lack of acceptance than with the outer situation that seems to trigger it.
Patience and Its Relationship to Forbearance
Waith teaches that Patience is largely about one’s inner relationship to time and to the unfolding of the Universal Flow ~ waiting without resistance, trusting that growth and outcomes arrive when they are meant to.
He describes Forbearance as the outward, relational expression of that same inner quality ~ the ability to endure or tolerate a difficult, frustrating, or unpleasant situation involving another person without reacting negatively. To understand forbearance means that you develop intensely your abilities to love unconditionally without any type of conditions for the other entity ~ and it must begin with Self.
Where Patience is the quiet acceptance of timing and process, Forbearance is Patience put into practice with and toward others ~ restraint, tolerance, and a refusal to let frustration turn into harsh words or judgement.
Why We Lose Patience
A few common roots of losing Patience are:
Attachment to a specific outcome or timeline ~ wanting a result now rather than trusting it will arrive when it is meant to.
Judgement of Self or Others ~ impatience often surfaces alongside Self-criticism or criticism of another person’s pace, choices, or shortcomings.
Forgetting that Patience is itself a lesson still being learned ~ Waith notes that people often grow impatient with their own process of becoming more Patient, compounding the very frustration they are trying to overcome.
A sense of disconnection from trust ~ when we lose sight of the idea that events are unfolding as they should, delay begins to feel like a threat rather than simply part of the process.
Fatigue or depletion ~ when our own inner reserves are low, tolerance for delay, provocation, or another person’s shortcomings naturally shrinks.
Seen this way, impatience is less a flaw to be ashamed of and more a signal ~ it points to where trust, acceptance, or Self-compassion has thinned.
How to Have Patience with Our Own Growth
Waith’s teachings place particular emphasis on turning Patience inward ~ toward our own development ~ since this is often where it is hardest to sustain. A few threads from that teaching:
Accept that growth is gradual by design. Waith frames Patience as a lesson tied to the Soul’s long journey, not a switch to be flipped ~ expecting instant transformation works against the very process meant to unfold slowly.
Forgive Self along the Way. Self-forgiveness is described as closely linked to Patience ~ holding onto guilt or frustration about not being further along tends to slow growth rather than speed it.
Notice when you are impatient about being impatient. Waith specifically names this pattern ~ growing frustrated with Self for not yet mastering Patience ~ as a trap in itself. He encourages simply observing it rather than adding more Self-judgement on top.
Trust that the Universal Flow applies to you too. The same trust asked of us regarding outer events ~ that things unfold as they should ~ is asked of us regarding our own inner timelines.
Treat setbacks as part of the lesson to be learned, not proof of failure. A difficult day or a relapse into old patterns is simply more material for the ongoing lesson of Patience ~ not evidence that the lesson is not being learned.
How to Practice Patience with Others
A few practices consistent with Waith’s teachings:
Pause before reacting. Give yourself a moment to notice irritation rising before responding, so that the response comes from choice rather than reflex.
Extend unconditional acceptance. Waith links Patience to unconditional love ~ try meeting another person’s pace, mistakes, or limitations without attaching judgement to them.
Remember that everyone is on their own timeline. Just as your own growth unfolds according to its own process, so does everyone else’s ~ their current behavior is not the whole of who they are.
Practice it as a discipline and not a mood.
Closing Reflection
Across Waith’s teachings, Patience and Forbearance are presented less as virtues to be perfected once and for all, and more as ongoing practices ~ a way of relating to time, to other people, and to one’s own unfolding with trust rather than resistance. Loosening the grip on how quickly things should happen, whether in the world, in another person, or in Self, is offered as the heart of the practice of Patience with the world and becomes Forbearance with others, and Forbearance with others, turned inward, becomes Patience with our own growth.
Note: This document summarizes and paraphrases publicly shared teachings attributed to Waith and presented by the Community of Terra Lux (terralux.org). It is offered as an educational reflection and not a verbatim transcript.
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