But my brain is too small to comprehend it. I love to try imagining the billions of years that went into setting the scene for this moment. I love watching ocean waves lapping at the shore. It is both a powerful force for change and a simple substance for sustaining life. The persistent flow over time that gives life to the earth, carves through mountains, and defines who we are. It not only tells us something about the characteristic of gentleness but it embodies gentleness in practice. Water gets heavy use as a metaphor but I’m going to use it anyway. We know who they are by what they look like and how they sound.Ĭompassion is gentle because it probes deeper than our artificial surfaces and conditioned exteriors. We don’t need to look with any depth at any individual. They’re quicker, simpler, and easy to transport. We use boxes, labels, and generalisations instead. We have a chronic lack right now because we rarely see people as people. It reminds us that we are seen, heard, and not alone. Gentleness is Compassion | 26:22Ĭompassion means to suffer together.
#Reflect deeper synonym series
It’s deep and universal a series of choices we make as we question and refuse to indulge in cycles of violence that destroy the world. It’s not the preserve of a particular type of person. I don’t want to atomise the world any further with yet another identity that can be commodified and sold back to us in blueprints and merchandise. Gentle Rebel is my favourite way to describe introverted, sensitive people who quietly move against the grain of the world’s noise.īut I don’t want to confuse gentleness with a personality trait. Real strength is neither male nor female but is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that any human being can possess.” – Mr Rogers Gentleness is Rebellion | 13:59 Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength and other words–like aggression and even violence. It’s something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. It holds us to account while accepting our mistakes. People say it’s caring, kind, trustworthy, safe, respectful, backbone, wholehearted, holding account, and calm. We recognise it when we see it in action but it seems impossible to truly define.
Like glue on the one hand, and like a soft supportive pillow on the other. I think gentleness is a force between worlds. It invites us to see the part we play in creating the world with our words and actions. Never resting on its laurels or assuming that the right response for today is the right one for tomorrow. It’s always alive to the need of the moment a choice for right now.
Gentleness absorbs the shocks from life’s unavoidable collisions.
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How to Create The Conditions for Gentleness | 22:30.What Does Gentleness Make Possible? | 19:36.Gentleness is Big Enough To Hold All of Us | 30:26.
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