Patience and Passion
Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
— Maya Angelou
Patience and passion—two forces that shape the thresholds we move through. Patience honours the silence, tending the unseen, allowing what is emerging to root deep. Passion stokes the fire, beckoning us forward into transformation.
Too much patience, and we risk lingering in hesitation, mistaking stillness for safety. Too much passion, and we may rush ahead without roots, burning through what needs sacred time to take shape.
But when they meet—when patience steadies passion and passion enlivens patience—we find the rhythm of true Becoming. The threshold becomes a place not of waiting, but of weaving. A place where what is old is composted, what is new emerges, and we step forward—not in haste, but in deep trust, in embodied knowing that now is the time.