Inconsistent Character

Not Persevering in power and virtue. Someone gives you a gift and even then you are embarrassed. Trial: Distress. You are betraying your own promise. Everything will lead to your embarrassment because you cannot keep your heart steady. You go back and forth in your thoughts trying to understand things. Have no fear. Difficulties are going, the connection is coming. Your friends will be there for you. Do not keep beating yourself against impossible obstacles. Deliver yourself from your sense of burden and your need for privilege. Co-operate with the ongoing process of change.

九三, 不恒其德, 或承之羞, 貞吝.

He who does not give duration to his character Meets with disgrace. Persistent humiliation. ##### Comments If a man remains at the mercy of moods of hope or fear aroused by the outer world, he loses his inner consistency of character. Such inconsistency invariably leads to distressing experiences. These humiliations often come from an unforeseen quarter. Such experiences are not merely effects produced by the external world, but logical consequences evoked by his own nature.