The Properties of Gentleness

• Accurate appraisal

• Readjusting evaluation

• Companionable response

• Helpfulness

• Charity

• Propriety

• Generosity

• Suppleness

• Fluidity

• Measured action & inaction

• Grace

•  Care & carefulness

• Fairness

• Imagination
•   Intelligence/Wisdom
  
  
  
  
  

The Ultimate Strength in the Greatest of the Gentle

The paradox of Gentle is that it comes from strength and not from weakness. Gentle is not flaccid, just tender. Gentle is deliberate, not hesitant. Gentle corresponds and responds very strongly, in order to be gentle. Gentleness and Strength belong together.

The Commitment to Living the Gentle Life

The Commit-meant becomes plausible when the individual fully knows what they are committing to. When identified and consciously embraced, a true commit-meant has a spiritual-super-glue hold to keep whatever it is committed to, in place. This is a very interesting fact within our egoic makeover. 

So what this means is, that if a man or woman audibly or internally makes a commitment to something or someone and they do not fully comprehend what it involves in the short and long term, then the commitment will live in possibility but not adhere permanently as it has not the glue of consent and comprehension required. 

However, if the sphere has been traveled, if the concept is complete and the individual within their soul's love and ego's knowing and within their soul's knowing and their ego's love also, then if deciding to make a commit-meant to retaining this virtue and working for it consciously, say for example, then fixed within them this will be. This is a very progressive law operating within us because without it true development would be somewhat unstable.

Commitments spiritually keep courses and set 'default' buttons in a manner of speaking, for those periods they are especially needed and perhaps distracted from.

The Inner Disposition of Being Gentle

There is an inner attitude that gentle folk bear, which is constant and apparent. One can say that a man or woman is gentle in a particular instance, and not-so-gentle in another, but in truth there are those who carry about themselves gentility and those who do not.

All great teachers are characterized by this inner persuasion. Occasionally there may be outer circumstances which require noise or force, but even this will be handled adeptly and relatively gently by that same soul. We can look to Christ's own approach towards our own souls and nature. He does not persuade us with force, only by the good reason of common outcome which shows itself. He does not require even love from us if we decide not to give it. He does not punish or compel, He gently abides all decisions that we decide, and yet in truth would have all power over our outcomes at all times.

This disposition is cultivated through our observance of He, our most Gentle Master.