Whenever your inner life is clouded, your influence in the world is under a shadow.

If your are fearful, you will be attacked,

if you cloak genuine mysteries in Dogma,

opportunities for new insights will be lost,

if you vacillate in upholding your principles,

you will be tested;

yet when you are firm and strong, the power of truth can break

through even the most stubborn minds.

The I Ching