Gentleness is the value and quality of one’s character. Gentleness is considered to play a very important role in life.

Gentleness means recognizing that the world around us is fragile, especially other people. It is recognizing our own capacity to do harm and choosing instead to be tender, soft-spoken, soft-hearted, and careful. When we are gentle we touch the world in ways that protect and preserve it.

Being gentle doesn’t mean being weak; gentleness can be firm, even powerful. To behave in a gentle manner requires that we stay centered in our own values and strength — that we are active rather than reactive. Coming from this center, a gentle word or touch can channel our energy into healing or making peace. ~Joseph Jung

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. ~Alan Watts

The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You’re one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
a cloud come over the sunlit arch,
And wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you’re two months back in the middle of March.

~ Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time, 1926

Have good trust in yourself … not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are. ~Maezumi Roshi

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence. ~Eckhart Tolle