Patience is one of the most valuable qualities that is developed by a person who practices meditation. It is obvious that much pleasure and wealth comes to a person who is patient. However, it is not so much the knowledge that ‘good things come to those who wait’ that is missing. Everyone knows the cliché. What is missing is the capacity to be patient, to resist the urge to get something now.
Thankfully, the Buddha gave us instructions on how to become more patient. If you learn to practice meditation, you will train the mind to be in the present moment so that you can appreciate and enjoy more of what you have now. Part of the effect will be that you will be able to resist some of the desires that attack you each day. More importantly, however, part of the effect will be that you will have fewer desires. Those things that you still want, which will be increasingly of a productive variety, you will enjoy more.