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A method of the self

Ayatollah Khamenei

Discourses on Patience

The method

Patience is resistance on the road towards perfection, not resignation. What holds in hardship is not what holds against temptation, so the discipline begins with naming which of the three is being asked of you right now.

How the app helps you keep it

You can follow this method for forty days. It adds 2 steps to your day, each one tickable, with the reasoning behind it a tap away:

  • Name the patience morning
  • Hold the line through the day

Each evening you write what happened and which defence held, so the forty days end in a record of your own pattern rather than a row of ticks. A slip is noted and never resets the count.

Source

Scholar-guided practice — the three kinds of patience

Discourses on Patience — Sayyid Ali Khamenei

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