Today: Work with your colleagues as an important and pivotal part of a coalition – from the I Ching

yinyang02paperApply yourself genuinely with devotion and without fanfare.  Work with your colleagues as an important and pivotal part of a coalition.  An unbreakable bond will form providing the means for accomplishing anything as long as you have strength of spirit and hold with reality as it is.

The text reads:
When anyone is called upon to work in a prominent but not independent position, true success depends on the utmost discretion. A man’s genuineness and refinement should not reveal themselves directly; they should express themselves only indirectly as an effect from within.
“This is a time for dealing with reality as it is, not as you would have it be.
If you realize that in this situation you are the receptor, not the transmitter of the stimulus, you will find yourself reaching goals that seemed unattainable under your own steam.
“WHAT IS required is that we unite with others, in order that all may complement and aid one another through holding together. But such holding together calls for a central figure around whom other persons may unite. To become a centre of influence holding people together is a grave matter and fraught with great responsibility. It requires greatness of spirit, consistency, and strength. Therefore let him who wishes to gather others about him ask himself whether he is equal to the undertaking, for anyone attempting the task without a real calling for it only makes confusion worse than if no union at all had taken place.

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Author: harinam

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