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“If people plunge into openness, They will comprehend successful adaptation.”
—The Book of Balance and Harmony

“The origins of calamity and fortune depend on and inhere in each other, just as shadows and echoes follow forms and sounds. If you can reverse this mechanism of enlivening and killing, calamity will turn to fortune in the time it takes to turn over your hand.”