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Some think they can manage the world through control,

but I perceive no successful end to this.

The world is the vessel of the Sacred

and is not to be shoved around!

Acting upon it only ruins it.

Seizing it, you lose it!

For all beings are:

times to follow and times to lead,

times to breathe gently and times to breath hard,

times of overcoming and times of succumbing.

This is why the sage rejects extremes, excess, and extravagance.