32. What Lasts · 恆 九三
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In practice
If you let outside circumstances grow bigger than your dreams and projects, they'll end up gaining power over you.
The poetry
Not making one's virtue last; perhaps shame will follow. Constancy brings distress.
九三：不恆其德，或承之羞，貞吝。
象曰：不恆其德，无所容也。
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