Holy tolerance!

Padmāsana

At times I can be somehow intolerant of myself and others. I wonder whether the practice is at all helping me in overcoming this flaw.

"Holy tolerance!" was the mantra a dear friend and college classmate used to repeat over and over. It escorted him in his endurance of a very intense and exuberant inner life, though lived with uneasiness and often bitterness towards the outer world.

I believe that all that forced tolerance mixed with bitterness led him to suffer more than necessary and was partly the cause of his afflictions.

I also believe that I never told him how much I cared for him, even from afar.