The
one who wishes to pick a rose must be prepared to deal with the thorns. The Dao
gives and takes, ebbs and flows, creates and destroys. It is the yin and yang
of all things. Sometimes we may wish only the yang, or only the yin, but that
is not the way of the universe. All things remain balanced in their own way,
and that way is not necessarily the way that we wish. Failure is the mother of
success and to be successful almost always requires a certain amount of
failure, in one form or another.
