The Gentle: success through what is small. It furthers one to have somewhere to go. It furthers one to see the great man. Wind doubled — the penetrating power of the gentle: influence that succeeds not by shock but by ceaselessness, entering everywhere as wind does, bending things by returning again and again. Gentleness of this kind needs direction and authority behind it, or it dissipates into mere drift.
Winds following one upon the other: the superior person spreads their commands abroad and carries out their undertakings. Influence works by repetition — the wise announce, repeat and follow through, until the message has entered every room like weather.
Force will not work in your situation — but persistence will, gloriously. This is the hexagram of the gentle campaign: influence exerted lightly and repeatedly — the recurring conversation, the steady example, the small pressure never withdrawn — until resistance is penetrated the way wind penetrates every wall in time. Give your gentleness a clear direction and a firm backbone (drifting breezes change nothing), and follow up everything: the second and third visits do what the first cannot. Where thunder would be resisted, wind is absorbed. Be the weather, and the landscape will reshape.
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