Ever the optimist, Simone shares these words from I Ching 25, Innocence (The Unexpected):
“Man has received from heaven a nature innately good, to guide him in all his movements. By devotion to this divine spirit within himself, he attains an unsullied innocence that leads him to do right with instinctive sureness and without any ulterior thought of reward and personal advantage. …
But, Simone warns, temper optimism with realism. A dog knows these things instinctively:
“However, not everything instinctive is nature in this highest sense of the world, but only that which is right and in accord with the will of heaven. Without this quality of rightness, an unreflecting, instinctive way of acting out brings only misfortune.”
Simone at the rose garden, Clinton School of Public Service. Simone notes that the metaphor here is too obvious to mention. (2011/RO)
A vision of patience.
Simone says she has her moments! Thank you!