[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Gentleness Brings Daring

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

June 22, 2009

GENTLENESS BRINGS DARING

When there is daring, you dare to do something: you put forth your 
vision fearlessly. People have doubts about big vision because they 
don't have a sense of gentleness in themselves first. So gentleness 
brings daring and a sense of fearlessness. Daring is appreciation of 
letting go in the fundamental sense. First you develop gentleness 
toward yourself; then you begin to develop daring, which is connected 
with how to express your gentleness to the world outside, how to 
proclaim your sanity. Your are not going crazy because you have seen 
the Great Eastern Sun, which is the symbol of expansive vision in the 
Shambhala world. Rather, because you have seen the Great Eastern Sun, 
you are very daring and at the same time very gentle and soft. The 
softer you become, the greater the message to the world becomes.

 From "Outrageousness," a talk to directors of Shambhala Training, 
October 1978.

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