Saturday, September 5, 2026

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2026 PROGRAM

Georgia O'Keeffe - Lake George, Autumn (1927) 
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way," 
O'Keeffe said, "things I had no words for."

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2026 PROGRAM 


IN-PERSON: Sunday, 9/20/26, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (Pacific). - Cesar Love, author of "Baseball: An Astrological Sightline" presents "Goalpost to the Stars: An Astrology of Football" 

Join us for this first look into Cesar's latest research!

ON-LINE: Sunday, 10/4/26, at 6 p.m. (Pacific) via Facebook Live - Jeff Curtis presents "Topics in the Nature & Origin of Life"  

For decades now, through bi-monthly talks both in-person and on-line, Professor Emeritus (University of San Francisco) and fellow SFTS Lodge member Jeff Curtis has kept us abreast of the latest revelations from the cutting edge of scientific research. Jeff's talks are seasoned with a special emphasis on the intersection of science and mysticism. Here's a link to "Jeff Curtis on Advances in Science, The Third Avowed Object in Action," a playlist of Jeff's talks available on the SFTS Lodge YouTube Channel.

IN-PERSON: Sunday, 10/25/26, 4 to 6 p.m. (Pacific) - Conversations in Theosophy


Monday, August 24, 2026

Elaine Santos presents "Entering Your Love Era w/ Imagery, Breaking the Bonds of Self-Loathing to Experience Love & Bliss"


In-Person & On-Line, Sunday, 8/30/26: 

Elaine Santos presents "Entering Your Love Era w/ Imagery, Breaking the Bonds of Self-Loathing to Experience Love & Bliss"

"I am excited to offer this imagery session in-person and online at the San Francisco Theosophical Society Lodge on Sunday 8/30," Elaine says. "The imagery will be relaxing and will explore self-love and the obstacles that hold us back from fully embracing it.  I was inspired by the book 'Amma is Love' by Ethan Walker III; in particular the quote below about self-loathing. I have been contemplating how to release self-loathing to fully embrace and enjoy love.  I am excited to share this imagery with you!"

Here is the registration link:


The Lodge opens at 4pm PST, for those joining in-person. Elaine's talk will start at 5 p.m. PST and that's when the Zoom will start for those joining us on-line.

For more information on Elaine's work, visit https://www.wellnessasart.com/



Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Paranirvana of Legendary American Sage Joe Miller, 8/19/92 - "So Long As Love Remembers"


Sandalwood on Lake Minnetonka

After I joined the Theosophical Society, I was visiting a friend of mine back in Minnesota, on Lake Minnetonka. We were walking along and went into some trees. I smelled incense, sandalwood incense. But there was nothing like sandalwood anywhere near there. Then I just took a gentle, in-drawn breath and was fined with ECSTASY.

At that time, I was working in a nightclub and driving a bakery truck too, so I probably had myself honed down pretty fine from the actual work I was doing. But I wanted to feel it again, I wanted that feeling that you couldn’t exactly say was a feeling. It was an ecstasy.

And I wasn’t thinking about anything. It was just a gentle breath. It was there because I was still enough, without anything bothering the conscious mind. So it just happened.

Well, it was about two years before it happened again. I wanted it to come back so much, I cried. And then it happened again without trying. It was just a happening. And I wanted to find out what it was. I even cried that it had come back. It’s like pleasure and pain mixed. You couldn’t call it pleasure, you couldn’t call it pain. It was just an ecstasy.

After a while, I got so that I could just do it with a gentle, in-drawn breath. But it wasn’t me. It’s just tuning into the THATNESS, the IT-ness, God, love, whatever you want to call it. The name you put on it doesn’t make any difference. It’s the experience.

So I can sit here now and just draw on a gentle breath. I wouldn’t dare breathe that way all the time because I wouldn’t want to be walking that high off the ground. But I can sit down and be very quiet and it happens. It’s just an ecstasy in the very air. 



Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Vectors of Reality - Full Series of Talks Now Available


In 2025, Richard Power gave a series of four talks, “Verities of Being.”

Likewise, in 2026, Power gave a another series of four talks, “Vectors of Reality.”

The “Vectors” series is, in a real way, a sequel to the “Verities” series.

In a meta sense, they can even be seen as single series of 8 talks.

All four talks of the “Vectors” series are now available via YouTube and Substack.

Full videos on YouTube. Full text, slides and video on Substack.

Here are links to the digital artifacts for both “Vectors” and “Verities” -

“Vectors of Reality” YouTube Links (Full Videos)
“Vectors of Reality” Substack Links (Full Text, Slides and Video)

And just in case you missed them, here are the “Verities of Being” links -

“Verities of Being” YouTube Links (Full Videos)
“Verities of Being” Substack Links (Full Text, Slides and Video)




Thursday, July 23, 2026

"Tonight, Broadcasting Live from Inside the Singularity" - Final Talk in Richard Power's "Vectors of Reality" Series





On July 19, 2026, Richard Power delivered “Vectors of Reality, Part 4: The Nature of Reality.” The final talk in this series.

You'll find the video embedded below.

All four talks are now available via our YouTube channel.

Here are some digital artifacts from this powerful event, including images of the magical beings who made up our circle, along with a few slides from Richard’s presentation itself, AND also some images of the MpowerDance Project’s “Water Changes Rock We Are Here” Art Exhibition currently on display.

This exhibition features the watercolors of Courtney Wynn Sheets and the ceramic sculptures, dance film and photography of Mary Power.

The exhibition which opened in November 2025 will continue into November 2026.

Blessings, Theosophical Society of San Francisco


Wednesday, July 1, 2026

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO JULY-AUGUST 2026 PROGRAM


Surrender is giving oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining this source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.  Because you imagine yourself to be out of it, you raise the question, 'Where is the source'?
- Sri Ramana Maharshi (Talks w/ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk #208)

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO JULY-AUGUST 2026 PROGRAM 

IN-PERSON/ON-LINE: Sunday, 7/19/26, 4 to 6 p.m. - Richard Power presents "Vectors of Reality, Part 4: The Nature of Reality" (ON-LINE via Zoom starts at 5 pm)

ON-LINE: Sunday, 8/2/26, at 6 p.m. - Jeff Curtis presents "Some Recent Science Updates"

IN-PERSON/ON-LINE: Sunday, 8/30/26, 4 to 6 p.m. - Elaine Santos presents "Entering Your Love Era w/ Imagery, Breaking the Bonds of Self-Loathing to Experience Love & Bliss" (ON-LINE via Zoom starts at 5 pm)

For more information Elaine Santos' work, visit wellnessasart.com

Here is the Zoom registration link for the "Vectors of Reality" series -


You will receive confirmation email, providing further information.

If you missed Parts 1, 2, or 3, you can catch up on YouTube  (videos embedded below) -




Saturday, June 20, 2026

The Great Wheel Turns: Solstice 6/21/26


#Gaia #Solstice #YinYang #YearoftheFireHorse #Theosophy

In this Year of the Fire Horse (Shoutout Shadowfax, “Lord of All Horses”) -

The first of our two Solstices occurs on 6/21/26 at 08:24 UTC

Which means Summer arrives at 1:24 am (PDT) in San Francisco,10:24 am (CEST) in Paris and 4:24 pm (ULAT) in Ulaanbaatar;

AND Winter arrives at 5:24 am (CLT) in Patagonia, 10:24 am (SAST) in Cape Town and 5:54 pm (ACST) in Uluru

The Great Wheel turns; turn with it.

Feel the planetary polarity.

Waves of light and darkness, each the swirling core of the other.

Lean forward.

Images (clockwise):

1. John Constable - Stonehenge (1835)
2. Antonio Canova - The Three Graces (1814)
3. Mithandir (Gandalf the White) w/ Shadowfax (“Lord of All Horses”), Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (2002)
4. Mandala Depicting Kalachakra and Vishvamata, Tibet, first half 16th Century

Friday, May 8, 2026

White Lotus Day, May 8th, 2026: "Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious"

On White Lotus Day, May 8th, 2026, We Honor the Legend & Legacy of the Incomparable H.P.B.

"Thou canst not travel on the Path before thou has become that Path itself." - H.P. Blavatsky, Voice of the Silence

“Darkness radiates the light, and light drops one solitary ray into the mother-deep.” - H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

White Lotus Day (May 8th) is the anniversary of the passing of H.P. Blavatsky, the great mystic, adventurer and mother of modern Theosophy. Each year at this time those who carry on celebrate both her remarkable life and her profound contribution to the advance of human evolution. 

Om Mani Padma Hum! 

A few jewels from the writings of H.P. Blavatsky -

"We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike."

"Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception."

“The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.”

“The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.”

“Nature isn’t, as your scientists seem to believe, an agglomeration of fundamentally different objects and elements; Nature is a whole, and everything in the organism acts and is acted on by every other thing contained therein.”

“We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.”

 “The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.”

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO MAY-JUNE 2026 PROGRAM


"To live to benefit [human]kind is the first step." - H. P. Blavatsky,  The Voice of the Silence
On May 8th, White Lotus Day, Theosophists everywhere celebrate the life & work of the great HPB

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO MAY-JUNE 2026 PROGRAM 

ON-LINE: Sunday, 5/17/26, at 6 p.m. - Richard Power presents "Vectors of Reality, Part 2: The Gaian Mysteries"

NO MEETING Sunday, 5/24/26 - We Honor Memorial Day

IN-PERSON: Sunday, 6/7/26, 4 to 6 p.m. - Jonathan J. Levine presents "Before & After: The Art of Transfiguration"

ON-LINE: Sunday, 6/21/26, at 6 p.m. - Richard Power presents "Vectors of Reality, Part 3: The True, The Good, The Beautiful"

NO MEETING Sunday, 6/28/26 - We Celebrate San Francisco P-R-I-D-E!

Here is the Zoom registration link for the "Vectors of Reality" series -


You will receive confirmation email, providing further information.

You only have to register once for all four talks.

If you missed Part 1, you can view it on YouTube  (video embedded below) -


Saturday, April 4, 2026

Vectors of Reality, A Series of 4 Talks on the Mystical Dimensions of Life on Earth


Richard Power - "Vectors of Reality, A Series of 4 Talks on the Mystical Dimensions of Life on Earth" 
  • 4/19/26, 6 pm Pacific - Part 1: Spacetime
  • 5/17/26, 6 pm Pacific - Part 2: Gaian Mysteries
  • 6/21/26, 6 pm Pacific - Part 3: The True, The Good, The Beautiful
  • 7/19/26, 5 pm Pacific - Part 4: The Nature of Reality
This event is the sequel to last year's "Verities of Being."

As with "Verities of Being," the first three talks will be held online via Zoom and the fourth talk will be held both online via Zoom and in-person at the Lodge.

Here is the Zoom registration link for this series of talks:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SAZz3cA-TpeYdUTvidColg

You will receive confirmation email, with further information.

After each talk concludes, it will be made available via YouTube and Substack.

Meanwhile, here are links to digital artifacts of the “Verities of Being” series, including full videos on YouTube & full text, slides & embedded video on Substack:

Richard Power - Verities of Being, Part I: Shadow (SFTS Lodge 6/15/25)
 

 Richard Power - Verities of Being, Part 2: Siddha (SFTS Lodge, 7/20/25)  

 Richard Power - "Verities of Being, Part III: Shakta" (SFTS Lodge, 8/17/25)  

 Richard Power presents "Verities of Being, Part IV: Spanda" (SFTS Lodge, 9/21/25)

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO MARCH-APRIL 2026 PROGRAM

 


This self-originated Clear Light, eternally unborn, is a parentless babe of Wisdom. 
Wondrous is this. Being non-created, it is Natural Wisdom. Wondrous is this. Not having known birth, it knows not death. Wondrous is this. - Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
Translated & Edited by the great Dr. W.Y. Evans-Wentz

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO MARCH-APRIL 2026 PROGRAM 

ON-LINE Sunday, 3/22/26, at 6 p.m. - Jeff Curtis presents "New Light on the Nature of 'Self'"

IN PERSON: Sunday, 3/29/26, 4 to 6 p.m. - Conversations in Theosophy

ON-LINE: Sunday, 4/19/26, at 6 p.m. - Richard Power presents "Vectors of Reality, Part 1: Spacetime"

IN-PERSON: Sunday, 4/26/26, 4 to 6 p.m. - Conversations in Theosophy

SPECIAL EVENTS 

Our 2026 Lenten Sutra Readings continue -

Friday 3/6, 6 pm: Great Liberation
Friday 3/13, 6 pm: Diamond Sutra
Friday 3/20, 6 pm: Great Liberation
Friday 3/27, 6 pm: Diamond Sutra
Friday 4/3, 6 pm: Great Liberation

All 2026 Lenten Sutra Readings are both IN-PERSON at the Lodge & ON-LINE via Zoom.

Here is the link to register for attending the Lenten Readings on-line via Zoom:


You will receive a confirmation email with further information


Saturday, February 28, 2026

"A Homemade American Mystic, Of Purest Ray Serene ..." - 4 Excerpts from Coleman Barks' Foreword to "Great Song: Life & Teaching of Joe Miller"





Four excerpts from "The Tiger's Nest," Coleman Barks' Foreword to "Great Song: Life & Teaching of Joe Miller" (1993)

Bravo & Bon Voyage Great-Hearted Ally!

Next time ...

Coleman Barks (April 23, 1937 - February 23, 2026)

- Richard Power, Theosophical Society of San Francisco 

"Great Song" Cover Photo Credit: Susannah Grover





Wednesday, February 25, 2026

"This is Coleman Barks. I hear you've written a book about Joe Miller." - In Celebration of A Great Poet (April 23, 1937 – February 23, 2026)

Bill Moyers interviews Coleman Barks, PBS, circa early 1990
 
One morning, in December 1992, my phone rang. "Hello, Richard? This is Coleman Barks. I hear you've written a book about Joe Miller."

That phone call was the beginning of a collaboration which MIRACULOUSLY put "Great Song: Life & Teachings of Joe Miller" into people's hands a mere year after his death.

I had indeed recorded, transcribed & annotated the talks of the legendary American sage Joe Miller. Joe had read the manuscript. No one else had. We agreed I would only publish it after his death.

Then Joe died in August 1992 & Guin died that November.

A mutual friend mentioned my project to Coleman.

Coleman had visited Joe. They had laughed & sung & told each other stories.

Coleman got it. Sitting there in Joe & Guin's flat on Nob Hill, Coleman knew he was in the presence of something rare, something blessed.

Thanks to PBS interviews w/ the great Bill Moyers, Coleman's brilliant star was on the rise. 

Fiercely independent, in those formative years of his fame, Coleman self-published his Rumi poems. Maypop Books. My work on Joe would be the only book in his catalog that wasn't either a collection of his Rumi renderings or his own poetry. 

A poet & mystic, Coleman understood why I needed to bold, italicize & even use ALL CAPS to imbue the printed text w/ a sense of Joe's powerful spoken word shakti.

Coleman understood my right brain approach to how the book was organized. He let the book be itself, something unlike anything else, a rare artifact carrying within it the truth of a rare being.

His edits only strengthened & amplified what I was doing.

We brainstormed the book title on a long phone call. Somehow we ended up talking about that majestic Rilke poem (trans. by Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy) -

"I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I will give myself to it.

I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?"

That's how "Great Song: Life & Teachings of Joe Miller" got its name.

Bravo & bon voyage you old raccoon! 

- Richard Power


Repost from @colemanbarks_official:

Coleman Bryan Barks of Athens, GA passed peacefully at home on February 23, 2026 surrounded by loved ones. He was born on April 23, 1937 to Elizabeth Bryan and Herbert Bernard Barks. He grew up on the campus of Baylor School in Chattanooga. He earned his BA at UNC Chapel Hill, his MA at the University of California, Berkeley, and returned to UNC for his doctorate. Barks joined the faculty of the University of Georgia English Department in 1967 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1997.

In 1976, Barks’ close friend, the poet Robert Bly, showed him some academic translations of Jalal al-Din Rumi, the thirteenth-century mystic Persian poet. Bly urged Barks to “release the poems from their cages.” Later, Barks became a student of the Sri Lankan Sufi mystic Bawa Muhaiyaddeen. Thus began his long and illustrious career translating Rumi. His translations have sold millions of copies and have been translated into many languages spanning 41 countries, inspiring readers worldwide.

In addition to his Rumi translations, Barks was an acclaimed poet in his own right. Much of his finest work – including notes on his process – is archived with the Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia.

Barks lived in Athens, Georgia for most of his adult life. Although internationally acclaimed, he was always approachable at his favorite corner seat at The Manhattan Cafe, Jittery Joe’s, or the Five Points Waffle House, ready and willing to talk about poetry, politics, or the Georgia Bulldogs. Generous with friends and strangers alike, he enjoyed laughing, dinners, conversation, buck dancing and singing, with some partiality to shape-note hymns. He found particular inspiration and peace near rivers and creeks. Outside of the written word, he expressed himself creatively through stonework and painting. He was a devoted and playful grandfather, always instilling an appreciation for whimsy and art in his children and grandchildren. His work and life were infused with humor and joy.


Friday, February 20, 2026

"Wonderous Is This!" - Join Us for the 2026 Lenten Sutra Readings Every Friday Evening Until Good Friday

 


The 2026 Lenten Sutra Readings start this evening at 6 p.m.

Both in-person at the Lodge or on-line via Zoom.

Here is the link to register for attending on-line via Zoom:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89788177977

You will receive a confirmation email with further information,

The Readings will be held every Friday and conclude on Good Friday, April 4th.

We will alternate between the "Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation" and the "Diamond Sutra," starting tonight with the "Great Liberation"

Join us!

Here is a precious video from our archives, the legendary American sage Joe Miller reading the "Great Liberation" 39 years ago! "So long as love remembers ..." 

Monday, February 9, 2026

Samaya Gya Gya ("Vast, Vast, Vast Is Divine Wisdom") - Join Us for the 2026 Lenten Sutra Readings

  
Written by the great Mabel Collins, and published by the Theosophical Society in 1923, "When The Sun Moves Northwards" reveals profound secrets of our journey through both the visible and invisible worlds. Focused on the first six months of the year, "the Six Sacred Months," from Winter to Summer, from nadir to zenith, "When the Sun Moves Northward" details a series of inner initiations, "ceremonies," available to incarnate humans, and in alignment with the turning of the seasons in the natural world. Just as there is an optimal time to plant seeds in the fecund soil of Gaia, there is an optimal time to plant seeds of growth, healing and achievement in the human soul. This is it!

"When the Sun Moves Northward" was a favorite text of the legendary American sages, Joe and Guin Miller. To ride the energy of this time, to harness the power of it, to be in alignment with the Turning of the Wheel in both the visible and invisible worlds, Joe and Guin decided upon a practice to share with each other. During the Lenten Season, starting on Ash Wednesday and ending on Good Friday, every weekday morning at 6:30 am, Joe would read Guin his favorite holy text "Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation" and every weekday evening at 6:30 pm, Guin would read Joe hers, "The Diamond Sutra." 

They started off in their living room. After we discovered this was going on, there were many of us huddled together listening, meditating, every morning and every evening. Eventually, the readings moved downstairs to the Lodge's "Buddha Room." This practice went on uninterruptedly until their deaths in 1992 (Joe in August, Guin in November). Our Lodge has kept this practice going every Lenten season ever since. In later years, adapting to the times, we changed up the scheme as needed. But one way or another, for 33 YEARS we have kept the Wheel turning. 

Here is the schedule for the 2026 Lenten Sutra Readings:

Friday 2/20, 6 pm: Great Liberation
Friday 2/27, 6 pm: Diamond Sutra
Friday 3/6, 6 pm: Great Liberation
Friday 3/13, 6 pm: Diamond Sutra
Friday 3/20, 6 pm: Great Liberation
Friday 3/27, 6 pm: Diamond Sutra
Friday 4/3, 6 pm: Great Liberation

All 2026 Lenten Sutra Readings will be both IN-PERSON at the Lodge & ON-LINE (via Zoom).

As we get closer we will be posting information for those who want to experience the Readings via Zoom. So check back with Lodge social media or if you're on our email list, look at your inbox.

The images included here are pages from these 3 holy books, "Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, "The Diamond Sutra" and "When The Sun Moves Northwards," along w/ pages from Joe Miller's oral commentary on the "Great Liberation," the full text of which is included in Richard Power's "Great Song: Life & Teachings of Joe Miller."








Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Conversations in Theosophy (SFTS Lodge, 1/25/26): Strength to Love


"Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I with them." (Matthew, 18:20)
SFTS Lodge Altar

In our first Conversations in Theosophy of 2026, we honored the memory of the great Bodhisattva Dr. Martin Lither King, Jr., sharing readings from his "Strength of Love" sermons and discussing the relevance of their message in this time of trial and tribulation.

Published in 1963, "Strength of Love" is a collection of sermons which he started writing during a fourteen day jail sentence during protests in Albany, Georgia (July 1962) and finished before launching protests in Birmingham, Alabama (early 1963).

For our Conversation in Theosophy, Lodge President Mary Power read aloud from the first sermon in the collection, "A Tough Mind and A Tender Heart." 

In our circle's ensuing dialogue, the striking resonance of the sermon's message with the Theosophical Society's Three Avowed Objects was highlighted.

  • To form a nucleus of universal brotherhood of humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color.
  • To encourage the comparative study of religion, philosophy and science.
  • To investigate unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in humanity. 
The message of Dr. King's sermon also resonates strongly with the Theosophical Society's Motto, "No Religion Higher Than Truth," AND the second line that this Lodge has added since the era of those great American sages, Joe and Guin Miller, "No Religion Greater Than Love."

Here are three short video clips from the presentation, interspersed with quotes from the text.


  •  There is little hope for us in our personal or collective lives until we become tough minded enough to rise about the shackles of half-truth and legends. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft minded. A nation of soft minded men is purchasing its own spiritual death through an installment plan. - MLK, Jr., "Strength of Love," 1963.  

    
  • Jesus reminds in a striking way that the good life demand combining the toughness of th serpent with the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dove-like qualities is to be passionless, mean and selfish. To have dove like qualities without serpent like qualities is to be sentimental, aimless, and empty. We must combine in our characters antithesis strongly marked. - MLK, Jr., "Strength of Love," 1963

  • There is another way which combines tough mindnes with tender heartedness. It is tough minded enough to resist evil. It is tender hearted to resist it with love. It avoid the complacency and the do-nothingism of the soft minded and the violengoog_23981734ce and bitterness of the hard hearted - MLK, Jr., "Strength of Love," 1963