Steadfastness includes:

• Strength—(by no means a mere accumulation of power; instead) the mastery of the free bestowal of the broadest fields of creative self-surpassing. 
• Decisiveness—(by no means the hardness of obstinacy; instead) the security of belonging to the event, the entry into the unprotected. 
• Mildness—(by no means the weakness of leniency; instead) the generous wakening of the concealed and retained, that which ever strangely binds all creating into what is essential to creating. 
• Simplicity—(by no means the "easy" in the sense of the everyday, nor the "primitive" in the sense of the unconquered and future-less; instead) the passion for the necessity of the single task of securing the inexhaustibility of beyng in the shelter of beings and not letting go of the strangeness of beyng.