Silence

Perhaps you've met people like this - you don't even know them well, but you feel comfortable with them because they are easy and relaxed.

They are not already full of their own agenda.

If you open the space within yourself, you will find that people, even someone who perhaps has even avoiding you (your teenage daughter, your partner with whom you were in a fight, your parent) will want to come and be near you. You don't have to do anything, or try to teach them anything, or even say anything. If you are practicing on your own, creating space and quiet within you, other will be drawn to your spaciousness. People around will feel comfortable just being around you because of the quality of your presence.

This is the virtue of nonaction. We stop our thinking, bring our mind back to our body, and become truly present. Nonaction is very important. It is not the same thing as passivity or inertia; it's a dynamic and creative state of openness. We just need to sit there, very awake, very light; and when others come sit with us, they feel at ease right away. Even though we haven't "done" anything to help, the other person receives a lot from us.