Limitation: success. Galling limitation must not be persevered in. The lake holds only so much water — beyond that measure it overflows and is lost: limits are what make containing, saving and meaning possible at all. Yet the judgment cuts both ways with famous fairness: limitation brings success, and limitation that galls — bitter, punitive, beyond nature — must not be maintained; even discipline has its measure.
Water over the lake: the superior person creates number and measure, and examines the nature of virtue and correct conduct. Limits are crafted, not suffered — the wise design their own measures: budgets, hours, boundaries, each fitted to nature like banks to a river.
Your situation calls for limits — a budget, a boundary, a discipline, a defined scope — and the oracle affirms it: definition is the road to success here, as banks are what make a river navigable. Set the measures deliberately and in advance, so they govern calmly instead of being improvised in crisis. But hold the judgment's second edge as firmly as the first: limits that gall — starvation budgets, punitive rules, boundaries that cut life rather than shape it — fail and deserve to fail; revise any limit that has become cruelty. The art is banks fitted to the actual river. Measured so, everything in this situation becomes sustainable.
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