Adapted from a Video from Chinese Internet: https://m.toutiao.com/is/uXlR4-A8ON4/ with title "王立群：心宽一寸病退一丈，道德经藏着修心的智慧。"
✨ The Six Certainties of Life ✨
🏡 Family of Origin
The family you’re born into isn’t your choice. Some start with plenty, some with struggle; some with harmony, some with strife. This is not fault nor blessing — only your starting point.
"The Way of Heaven shows no partiality, yet always abides with the good."
True lesson: accept it, then rise above it. 🃏 How you play matters more than the hand you’re dealt.
🌬️ Destiny
Times, chances, turns — many things lie beyond control. Wisdom isn’t fighting fate, but reading it. Reversal is the Way moving; dead ends can be new beginnings.
"Do all that’s humanly possible, and leave the rest to Heaven."
Play your best with what you hold; let go of the rest. 🌊
👨👩👧 Children
They are bond and debt, cause and effect. Some repay kindness; some refine your patience.
"Give life yet do not possess; lead yet do not rule."
Be your best example — let each nurture their own heart. 🌱
See also 🌱 Train Up a Child 📖 Proverbs 22:6
💰 Wealth
How much you can carry matches your virtue. Haste gains nothing; crooked paths bring no lasting blessing.
"He who is content is rich."
Grow your character first — provision follows. If virtue is shallow, gain slips away. 🌾
💞 Marriage & Companionship
Encounters seem free, yet carry arrangement. You attract what matches who you are.
"Cherish what comes; gracefully release what goes."
Every meeting refines you — success or growth, both are gifts. 💫
🕊️ Lifespan
Length of days is beyond command. Why cling to time when depth matters more?
"Follow what is natural — flow with life’s rhythm. Follow the Self-Existence God".
Live clearly, and life and death find equal peace. 🌸
Know these, and you don’t resign — you realign.
Work on what you can change; trust the Way with what you can’t.
Find freedom within limits; make the infinite possible here. ✨
Those who understand their lot do not rail against Heaven;
those who know themselves do not blame others.
See also Three Principles of Life, The Sovereign Mind: A Leadership Philosophy Framework
