Perhaps being open and attentive is more effective than being judgmental. This may be because people naturally tend to be good and truthful when they are being received in a good and truthful manner.

Perhaps it seems naive and childlike to offer uncritical openness to whatever emerges. But openness is simply more potent than any system of judgments ever devised.

- Heider, 1982, adapted

When the able person gets too busy, the time has come to return to selfless silence.

Selflessness gives one center
Center creates order
When there is order, there is little to do

- Heider, 1982, adapted

Surrender, when we are graced with it, is a true gift. When we finally acknowledge that we can’t do it, we give ourselves the opportunity to feel the river of life carrying us, taking us where we need to go, even though we have no idea where that might be. Often when surrender happens, we don’t trust that anything will take care of us, carry us, or show us the way: That’s what makes surrender so unthinkable. But we surrender because we have to, and luckily, surrender does not require our trust. When we do finally let go of the reins, and acknowledge our absolute not knowing, the most remarkable opportunity appears—to directly experience being supported by a larger source of wisdom, what I call “Grace,” which once experienced can never not be known.
 
- Nancy Colier, LCSW

“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”

- Harriet Tubman

Perhaps everything, every behavior, is a vibratory pattern or process. Such process emerges, develops, and decays, according to the single principle.

People seem to have a natural reverence for the principle, and they naturally love the vibratory energy which obeys the principle.

The vibratory energy and the principle make a partnership, which produces an infinite variety of forms. But the partnership takes no profit from its productivity. Neither does it get its power by making things happen in a coercive manner. There are simply no alternatives; there is no other way.

Perhaps this partnership between principle and process is the first fact of life and of our work.

- Heider, 1985, adapted