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The feeling of eagerly waiting for something to happen gives birth to impatience. This frustrates the very purpose of meditation, for it creates in its turn a sense of hurry, tension, nervous agitation--the extreme opposites of inner stillness. They shut it out.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 2 : Place and Condition > # 356