Be Soft
by Steve Taylor

Don’t build a hard, solid self full of fixed ideas and firm beliefs.

Be soft so that you don’t create friction, or clash with the world
but accept and absorb your experience with ease.

​Be soft so that disappointments and insults don’t bruise you
but bounce harmlessly away after your softness has absorbed their force

Be soft so that thoughts and emotions can’t attach themselves to you and ideas don’t turn
to rigid theories which can’t be contradicted and animosity never lingers long enough
to form a grudge and pain passes away before turning to trauma.

Be soft so that you can bend with the wind, without breaking
and become moist with the rain, without flooding.

Be soft so that you can pass through the world without leaving damage
only the lightest of trails which will dissolve like a cloud
and become part of the air which everyone breathes.

Ote Steve Taylorin kirjasta The Calm Center