36   What one would reduce first stretch to its limit. What one would weaken, first consolidate. What one would cast down, first elevate. What one would seize, first forsake. Such is subtle insight. To the flexible and yielding the hard and strong give way. No more than a fish out of water should one see a ruler's hand at work.
© Douglas Allchin 2002

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