The following is titled Softness and is from Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now
The soft always overcomes the hard. The soft is alive, the hard is dead. The soft is flowerlike, the hard is rocklike. The hard looks powerful but is impotent. The soft looks fragile but is alive.
Whatever is alive is always fragile, and the higher the quality of life, the more fragile it is. So the deeper you go, the softer you become, or the softer you become, the deeper you go. The inner-most core is absolutely soft.
That is the whole teaching of the Tao: Be soft, like water; don't be like a rock. The water falls on the rock. Nobody can imagine that finally the water is going to win. It is impossible to believe that the water is going to win. The rock seems to be so strong, so aggressive, and the water seems to be so passive. How is the water going to win over the rock? But in due course the rock simply disappears. By and by the soft goes on penetrating the hard.
So let this be a continuous remembrance. Whenever you start feeling that you are becoming hard, immediately relax and become soft, whatever the consequence. Even if you are defeated and momentarily you see that there will be a loss, let it be a loss, but become soft- because in the long run, softness always wins.
Strike the Match. Take Action, Be Extraordinary.
