Movement Consulting LLC----------- CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS.-------- Perhaps to return someday... "When rulers are very crafty, their subjects are very devious. When rulers have many obsessions and interests, their subjects do a lot of posturing. When rulers are uneasy, their subjects are unsettled. When rulers are very demanding, their subjects are contentious. If you don't straighten this out at the root but concern yourself with the branches, this is like stirring up dust as you try to clean a room, like carrying a bunch of kindling as you try to put out a fire .----------- Therefore the affairs of sages are few and easy to satisfy. They are benevolent without trying; they are trusted without speaking, they gain without seeking, they succeed without striving. They perceive reality alone, embrace virtue, and extend sincerity. Everyone follows them like echoes of sound, like reflections of form. What they cultivate is fundamental."------------- the Huainanzi- Taoist Book of Leadership and Strategy from the second century BCE.