A storm will one day arrive, knocking down holly trees, toppling church towers, and shaking even grand palaces.
"Highest excellence is like water." Everyone possesses the living water of life, which is the "true self." Genuine nature and emotions are our innate treasures, inexhaustible and boundless. As a Zen poem says: "Clear away the worldly dust, and the fire within will naturally fade."
On life's journey, unpleasantness is inevitable. Learn to adjust; find time to hike in the countryside. Look at the vast sky and feel the clarity of the mountains.
The fading sunset, blank pages, and soft echoes. Wandering through the crowds, one might lose their way and lose themselves. Only then do we realize: success is the divine brush of the wise, but the tragedy of the foolish. Without seeing the far shore, one can never grasp its beauty.
If you can be more open-minded, less attached to gain and loss, and more considerate of others—even if just by arguing less and letting go of trivialities—you will find your heart expands and the world grows wider. Non-contention is a state of being.
Learn confidence and patience in adversity; learn meticulousness from trifles and composure from great changes. Strength is born and nurtured this way. The strong explore the meaning of life amidst the waves, pursuing noble ideals; the weak succumb to life's twists and turns, wasting their youth.