Has Josh Hinds, motivational writer, ever heard of the Yijing? Maybe, who knows. But this article of his on integrity sounds eerily reminiscent of Hexagram 15.
What caught my eye is the title: ‘Hold Tight to your Integrity’. The name of Hexagram 15 is based on a character for ‘uniting’ which shows a hand grasping two things together:
Then there is the basic message that people with integrity win out in the end… that ‘life rewards those who remain humble no matter what success they may acquire’… and that the one who believes him/herself superior ‘tends to find themselves caught in a bit of “success quicksand” for lack of a better term”. The nuclear hexagram of Hexagram 15 – the core potential hidden within it – is Hexagram 40, Release.
Maybe I’m seeing too many patterns, maybe it’s too late at night and I’ve spent too many hours on mind-numbing technical work today, but don’t you think his article could have been published as a simple commentary on Hexagram 15?