On graciousness.........................

     The key to painless growth is humility, which amounts to merely dropping pridefulness and pretense and accepting fallibility as a normal human characteristic of self and others.  Lower mind sees relationships as competitive; higher mind sees them as cooperative.  Lower mind gets involved with others; higher mind becomes aligned with others.  The simple words "I'm sorry" put out most fires painlessly.  To win in life means to give up the obsession of "who's at fault."  Graciousness is far more powerful than belligerence.

-David Hawkins