To acknowledge that gentleness is not rest and taking time out, although that may be what I need.
Gentleness is a state of being where the inside of myself is quiet enough to hear what I need, to listen and pay attention to what is alive in me.
In fact, for me gentleness is not a doing thing at all. It has everything to do with how I am being, and if gentleness can live inside me as a state of being then how interact with the world becomes a new experience.
If I can seep my cells in care and kindness, if I can submerge myself in this softness and openness which this state of gentleness evokes in me. I feel as though I can meet and engage with the world from a place of tenderness and acceptance of what is happening in the moment.