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Knowing the Inescapable, Rest in It as Fate
In a life that tumbles down regardless of one's will, how can a person keep their dignity?
To know what cannot be helped and rest in it as though it were fate — this is the height of virtue.
Zhuangzi said that to know what cannot be helped and rest in it as fate is the height of virtue.
📝The Classic Answers
Zhuangzi said that to know what cannot be helped and rest in it as fate is the height of virtue. I read this not as an urging to resignation but as a last way to keep one's dignity. In a life where rank and circumstance keep tumbling down regardless of one's will, to collapse each time before what cannot be changed is to be swallowed by resentment. Yet the heart that accepts the inescapable as fate is not submission but the strength to hold one inner place that stays unshaken however the outside rocks it. However the world rolls me, how I receive it is still my own portion. Rather than breaking each time before what I cannot change, I choose to keep the place within me that will not be shaken.
🌱Apply It Today
If you keep colliding with a situation you cannot change, stop wrestling it and choose 'one attitude I can keep within it.'
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