Gangaji spent years as a therapist in California, searching for relief from an undercurrent of restlessness she could not name. In 1990 she traveled to India and sat with the teacher Papaji, who told her the search itself was the only obstacle to what she sought. She returned to teach for decades afterward, and in The Diamond in Your Pocket she offers this instruction as the core of practice: not forcing a breakthrough, not rushing past discomfort, but meeting each moment exactly as it arrives. That is patience in its most practical form, and persistence is simply doing it again the next moment, and the next.
Reflection
Gangaji's teaching asks for welcome rather than resistance toward whatever shows up in a day. What is one task today I can meet without pushing against it?