"True goodness and rightness and tenderness is easy flowing, just like the
river. No forcing on your part required, just spontaneous, just as a bird
doesn't have to think how to fly, it just flies. Your real nature, which
includes that virtue of quietness and courteous behavior, your real nature
doesn't have to think at all about expressing itself; it just is, it just
does that.
Now if you want to know what that means personally, experimentally, then
hear these explanations. Before real tenderness must come toughness.
Toughness leads to tenderness. Now I'm not talking about harshness, not
talking about being a bully, forcing your life and ideas and attention onto
others. I'm defining this kind of toughness as an absolute one thousand
percent insistence on doing and being what is truthful, what's healthy,
what is higher than your human nature."
from a talk given 5/13/1988 V. H.'s Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 20, talk 484, track 2
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