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Frustration, too evident in the cement clench of his jaw.
Distance, the ethereal detached from the flesh and bone.
Impatience, in the soft thrum of his heel as we sit in silence.
Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued ...
It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.
... that exasperating quality for which we have no name, which certainly is not accuracy, and which is quite the opposite of judgement, yet which catches the mind as brambles do our clothes.
Freediving is about silence ... the silence that comes from within..
How loose the silk. How jailed down the juice.
I was loosened, a top whirling around and around, and I didn't know who I danced with or what they looked like, only that I had become the music and the fire and the night, and there was nothing that could slow me down.
The moved and the shaken.
This is a subtle insight: the flexible overcomes the strong and unyielding.
The gentle fair on nervous tea relies,
Whilst gay good-nature sparkles in her eyes;
An inoffensive scandal fluttering round,
Too rough to tickle, and too light to wound.
As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.
You can shake the world in a gentle way.
Yielding, like ice about to melt.
I like the way the word feels against my mouth - soft, unassuming, even soothing.
Stiff, huh? I think seeing you roll around on the floor in that tight little outfit accomplished that.
There is no gentle here.
How do our lives ravel out
into the no-wind, no-sound,
the weary gestures wearily recapitulant:
echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string:
in sunset we fall into furious attitudes,
dead gestures of dolls.
The tension is making him practically vibrate.
Gentleness is a great strength.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.
I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in which I draw my nudes here in Paris, more original and at the same time sensitively observed.
The more I anoint the more my mind adheres physically to the mysterious fabric of love.
I am decutie. Worn thin. You know that word?
Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies
Stretch your limits once a while, lest you lose your elasticity
When we are quiet and still we contract and settle.
It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
the force of her intention. He
I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart
of form.
For the first time in my life, I felt a gentleness, a softness in the unfolding of each day.
When you have no intention then you have no tension! Be flexible.
If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it
Body is not stiff, mind is stiff.
Everything was tied together with thin threads of fate, and when one loosened or tightened it was surprising how impactful it could be.
that heavy, indifferent lassitude which is not the will to laziness, but the frustration of the will to a secret violence that no lesser action can satisfy. That
Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.
Change makes you pliable.
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
and makes me end where I begun.
We are in here not to correct the deformation but to accustom ourselves to it:
There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.
Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.
It's as if loosening that knot I'd never noticed before had slackened my interest along with it. At the same time that I'd lost something, something new had also taken root deep within me.
A spring never free from the pressure of some foreign body at last loses its elasticity; and so does the mind if other people's thoughts are constantly forced upon it.
Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.
True strength is delicate.
The false burdens fall away. We come into rhythm with ourselves. Our clay shape gradually learns to walk beautifully on this magnificent earth. A
When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.
Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
There is nothing stronger than gentleness.
Thus saying, I turned my full attention to the lock. Like a proper maiden, it resisted for a token moment. But, upon further adept agitation of its slender hole, it relinquished its charms with smooth, willing finesse.
Each of us encounters many diverse experiences that make us grow and transform, but we seek to return to our roots, which is quietude.
Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast.
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
Better to dangle from strings than to be bound tight by them,
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
Don't take tension, take ninesion
Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.
Virtue liberates; vice enslaves. A passion for genuine beauty liberates;
Your gentleness shall force
More than your force move us to gentleness.
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling
Extremity out of act.
I mistook non-conformity for freedom and in so doing found myself anything but free. For it is in conformity to one's true nature that one is most becoming, in both senses of the word: well-fitted and beautiful.
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
Spring is like a perhaps hand
Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.
There is a calm for you where men and women
Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.
No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste.
If your clothes are tight , you mean a man can hold tight on you , if they are lose you mean you can hold tight to a man
We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self. Too much precision ("stringency") is simply misplaced, a formalism inappropriate to the kind of matter we have to deal with (and to be).
A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus!
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
Freedom is Letting Go.
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!
Time unslid the knot of any last ribbon of tension.
The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.
Composure is the ruler of instability.
I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.
Before my mother's tremulous anxiety I recover my composure. Now I can walk about and talk and answer questions without fear of having suddenly to lean against the wall because the world turns soft as rubber and my veins become brimstone.
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
Any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.
[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)
The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.
Gentle. Which people see as weak.
I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth ... in mine it begins to be loosened.
In quietness the soul expands,
It's a continual process of opening and surrender, like taking off layer after layer of clothes,
Reason, by a weariness that made everything around
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.
In order to make room for the new (whether it's new clothes or new thoughts and ideas), we must release the old and the outworn.
Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind.
One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments ... is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease.
I feel a little whirl of dislocation
the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected
Though firm, we are never too firm, though we love fun, we never have fun in a silly way that makes us appear ridiculous, unless that is our intent.
There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the mind, after so much constraint and formality as I had been doomed to suffer.