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🧾 Extracted Summary of the Page

The passage (dated August 14, 1996 – Santa Monica, California) is titled “Infinite Patience and Smart Shopping.”

It presents a dialogue between a Questioner and Gurudev, exploring the nature of patience, divinity, and mental balance.

🌟 Core Ideas

• When you go to God seeking a boon, you feel hurried because you want something.

• If you realize that God already belongs to you, you naturally develop infinite patience.

• “Owning God” means understanding that divinity and creation are already yours, so there is no rush or anxiety.

• Hurry makes the mind small and unbalanced; patience arises from awareness of divine belonging.

• To cultivate patience, simply observe thoughts and feelings without regret.

• When you know you are part of a divine plan, you stop demanding and trust that you are taken care of.

• Most people have hurry in the mind and slowness in action.

• Gurudev says the ideal is the opposite:

Patience in the mind + dynamism in action.

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