Lokos - Patience: the art of peaceful living

Praise for Patience by Allan Lokos

Patience is an exquisite gift, a healing sanctuary, a balm for the soul. Allan Lokos gently guides us through the dark wood of the frantic, fearful reactivity that grows and festers in our too-hurried lives, negotiating safe passage through a world gone mad with impossible speed and inhuman expectations. He invites us to explore the root causes of our own impatience, offering simple tools of mindfulness, curiosity, and merciful attention as reliable practices for cultivating contentment, ease, and genuine peace within ourselves, our relationships, and the very real world. Make no mistakeAllan is no Pollyanna. He bravely lifts up the undeniably fierce, ugly consequences of our anger, violence, and impatient harming of ourselves and others, while confidently promising that these characteristicstoo conveniently dismissed as human naturecan in fact be skillfully transformed into authentic strength, wisdom, courage, and inspiring leadership. Allan Lokos has offered us a precious jewel, a path to freedom, a fragrance of grace, for which we may all feel deeply and humbly grateful.

W AYNE M ULLER, AUTHOR OF L EGACY OF THE H EART AND AL IFE OF B EING, H AVING, AND D OING E NOUGH

Allan Lokos has written an essential and profound book that can change your life. Spiritual growth is not like fast food. It takes time for its roots to grow, and that requires us to be receptive and patient. Patience delves into its vital subject with wisdom and compassion and offers us a path to our own higher self. Understanding the challenges of our hurried and harried world, Lokos has written a remarkable and practical guide to becoming a truly patient and spiritually effective person.

R ABBI Z ALMAN S CHACHTER- S HALOMI, AUTHOR OF J EWISH WITH F EELING AND A LL B REATHING L IFE A DORES Y OUR N AME

This book, both practical and profound, is a wonderful demonstration of just how to bring patience and a new way of being right into our daily lives. It is filled with insight, warmth, and compassion.

S HARON S ALZBERG, AUTHOR OF R EAL H APPINESS AND L OVINGKINDNESS

Drawing on Buddhist teachings and his own deep wisdom, Allan Lokos reminds us of the peace and freedom that are possible when we cultivate genuine patience. The stories and exercises give practical guidance in coming home to an openhearted presence in the midst of difficulty. This book is a compelling and beautiful invitation to pause and arrive fully in our life.

T ARA B RACH, P H. D ., AUTHOR OF R ADICAL A CCEPTANCE

In this gem of a book Allan Lokos invites us to attend to and practice what is perhaps the most overlooked of all spiritual qualities. Patience is an important read for everyone.

A NDREW O LENDZKI, P H. D ., S ENIOR S CHOLAR, B ARRE C ENTER FOR B UDDHIST S TUDIES, AUTHOR OF U NLIMITING M IND

Allan Lokos has a depth of experience that is woven throughout this fine book. He reaches with both mind and heart into the nature of patience. As Lewis and Clark mapped our way into the timeless beauty of the Northwest, Lokos is a very wise and human guide who breaks trail into the country of patience, marking all the sacred sites along the way and honoring all the sacred guides who have come before.

M ARK N EPO, AUTHOR OF T HE B OOK OF A WAKENING AND A S F AR AS THE H EART C AN S EE

Down-to-earth, full of ways to become more patient in challenging situations at home and at work, this book helps you develop one of the most important of all virtues for fast-paced, stressful, and often frustrating life today.

R ICK H ANSON, P H. D ., AUTHOR OF B UDDHAS B RAIN: T HE P RACTICAL N EUROSCIENCE OF H APPINESS, L OVE, AND W ISDOM