Before Completion — 二六

The Line

Interpretation

Here too the time to act has not yet come. But the patience that is needful must not be a sluggish waiting that lives from day to day. That would continually lead to no success. Rather, one must form within oneself the strength that enables one to advance. One must have, as it were, a wagon in order to complete the crossing. But one must still brake it. Patience in the highest sense is checked force. Therefore one must not fall asleep and lose the goal out of sight. If one remains strong and constant in one's resolve, then in the end all goes well.