SILVERN

CONTRARIWISE
 
Appreciating light comes with knowing the dark.
When darkness falls, a candle's glow can show the path to safety.
When sunlight blinds, a tree's shade can save the traveller's life.

Light a fire: prepare to get burned.
Make waves: beware of drowning.
Shake the earth: expect to be buried.

More words dilute meaning; less, concentrate.
Much ado achieves little; stillness gives birth to action.
The sage is a midwife.


Contrary?
Wise!

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The 'work' or 'action' of Tao is to guide opposites toward harmony in place of discord, or collaboration rather than confrontation.
Learn to choose the right tool for the task, the apt approach to the situation. Blather and fuss delay progress and provoke vexation.

The sage is skilful in anticipating and dissipating difficulties before they arise - eliminating unnecessary effort, disturbance and suffering.
The sage knows when it is better to bide time, allowing events to unfold, and solutions of problems to emerge, or become superfluous.

IMBALANCING ACT