“In the midst of the outer conflict, I must find inner quietness to speak with gentleness.”
—Howard Thurman (1899 – 1991)
Source: Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953), 56.
Question for reflection: When I feel tension rising in a conversation, what practices help me return to inner quietness before I respond—and how might gentleness reshape the outcome?