Others will show you where you are stuck, they say or do something and you automatically react in your familiar ways of shutting down or getting worked up. Without others provoking you, you remain ignorant of your habitual responses and cannot transform yourself.
Today is the summer solstice. In all times of high achievement, the antithesis is approaching, likewise all times of misfortune the antithesis is also approaching. Those who know how to reach the peak of any cycle and remain grateful are the wisest of all.
These ancient words are not the medicine, only the prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. Seeing it with your own eyes, hearing it with your own ears, is the only way to the destination. When you get there your mind will be quiet and still.
Once we have accomplished something, it is tempting to relax and forget about troubling over the details at the finish. These are times when everything appears to be balanced, complete and in harmony; this is the time to recognize the moments that bode change to an unbalanced state.
Quote: It is a time to pause and wait for the energy planted in the Spring to reach full bloom. If the Spring represents action, the Summer represents patience.