"Danger arises when a man feels secure in his position. Destruction threatens when a man seeks to preserve his worldly estate. Confusion develops when a man has put everything in order. Therefore the superior man (our one heart) does not forget danger in his security, nor ruin when he is well established, nor confusion when his affairs are in order. In this way he gains personal safety and is able to protect the empire. In the Book of Changes it is said: "What if it should fail, what if it should fail?" In this way he ties it to a cluster of mulberry shoots."
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"The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks; he makes his relations firm before he asks for something."
I Ching or book of changes, Richard Wilhelm translation
