Tao Te Ching

“Use unfortunate events to polish oneself, to find increase within reduction, to change a faulty beginning into a blameless end.”

— Liu Yiming 刘一明 1734 – 1821 CE via Thomas Cleary, Shan Dao, #42 Increase
(Liu I-ming)
from Taoist I Ching, , Zhouyi chanzhen 周易闡真