pause, persist, protect

"... freedom is momentary. I appreciate it for what it is. I just don't stay there, and that is okay with me. That's a loaded word—"stay." In terms of the law of anicca or impermanence, one does not stay anywhere."

Friendship and Meditation — Hozan Alan Senauke

"It's not very difficult to take a fortress: what is difficult is to win a campaign. And for that it's not storming and attacking that are wanted, but patience and time. ... [T]here is no more powerful adversary than those two: patience and time — they will do it all."

... advice from General Kutuzov, War and Peace, Book III, Part Two, Chapter 16 by Leo Tolstoy — https://zhurnaly.com/z/PatienceAndTime.html = PatienceAndTime

"Waiting is."

... Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A Heinlein

"As you move through your day, you can use any threshold as a moment of awakening. Pause at any doorway, even an open door, and take a conscious breath, instead of blasting in."

Mantra - Pause on Each Threshold — Lorin Roche

If we care for and protect those we come in contact with, we will have an army of people who will care for and protect us.

Aikido Spirit – Greg O'Connor