The Sage: Taoist Chronicles: "'When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.
It exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty. It confounds his undertakings.
By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and remedies his incompetencies.'
Because he sees with great Clarity
Causes + Effects, he Completes
the six Steps at the right Time
+ mounts towards Heaven on them
as though on Six Dragons."