Welcome back to the Sports Motivation podcast. It's your host, Niyshobo.

This is books and bars, breaking down books, excerpts from my favorite books, bars from my favorite rap songs, giving you my take on it, what it means to me and how it's impacted me. All right? Today, we're diving into the book Beyond Religion by the Dalai Lama,

Tenzin Gaiyazzo, His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama. And this book Beyond Religion is really a great

one. I spent a lot of time digging through this, and it's a book that I refer back to a lot

because there's just a ton of wisdom

in here and I one of the the he has a chapter on cultivating key inner values right and one of

the values he's talking about is patience and I really loved his take on patience and that's one

value as I get older I've learned to appreciate

and almost see as not see as more necessary I guess I've always felt it was necessary but I'm

almost like learning how critical patience really is and this ability to really be at peace

and at calm.

And not to dull my sense of urgency or my hunger,

but to temper that with a patience and ease about myself,

not being rushed.

All right.

So in this book, it's on page 137 if you buy the book,

but it's chapter 10, cultivating inner values.

And he talks about patience, right? And he breaks down what it takes in order to, or he breaks down the three aspects of patience, all right? And here's what he said. Number one,

forbearance towards those who harm us. Number two, acceptance

of suffering. And number three, acceptance of reality. All right. Now, I'm not going to talk about

the perpetrators of harm, those who harm us. I'm going to talk about the second two. All right,

so I'm going to read some excerpts from it. So he says, this training in patience takes the form of developing a genuine attitude of acceptance of the reality that life involves hardship.

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