• Resignation

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  When the thorn is in one's foot, one does not resignedly say, "This is not my business, leave it to God."

• Ignore

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  It will not do to ignore violence, to turn our face from it, and to pretend that we have eradicated it.
  It is there, in each one of us, in as much as we take sides, approve or disapprove, judge and advise.

• Truth

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  The effort to create order is disorder.
  The mind that sees this truth, not as an idea but as truth, is alert.
  The alert mind itself is order, virtue.

• Life

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  But life is not something that stands in front of you - life is in motion.

• Appropriate Action

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  One had to observe this in a great master like Swami Sivananda to know where self-respect ends and arrogance begins, where timidity ends and humility begins.
  One has to learn the difference between meekness and weakness, when to bend down and when not to, when to fear and when not to.
  Both bending down and not bending down can be attributed to arrogance.
  Here one sees the beauty of appropriate action - and it needs an awakened intelligence which is sattvic.