Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
Lao-Tzu
What I mean by love is not an emotion. It is a state of being... It is a sense of oneness with all that is. The experience of love arises when we surrender our separateness. You don’t love another, you are another. There is no fear because there is no separation
Stephen Levine
But if you hide the world in the world, so there is no place for anything to escape to, this is an arrangement, the vastest arrangement, that can sustain all things.
Chuang-Tzu
Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak; it is unshakable.
Jack Kornfield