These words engaged my mind as I read the transcript of a lecture, entitled Opposition and Fellowship, given by Richard Wilhelm in 1943 in Peking, and printed in Understanding the I Ching. I place them here for your reading, thought, and contemplation.

“There are different ways and means one can use to deal with objects and men, and to recognize them. One way is to single out the characteristics of things, to draw conclusions from these singled-out characteristics, and by joining together the conclusions to reach judgments. This is the way of observation.

However, another is the way of contemplation, of intuition, which is not altogether logical, although by intuition we understand a way that is supralogical and not opposed to logic . . . Real intuition is in accord with logic, only it transcends logic. It is, so to speak, not dependent on the thin thread of deductive reasoning, but has a broader basis. And only on the basis of this type of intuition can effects be produced. Indeed, effectiveness only and always occurs when the inner life of the other person is also grasped.

Exterior effects by means of terror are probably also possible, but such effects are only temporary phenomena. Force produces neither real nor lasting effects. Rather, the only lasting impact is produced by contemplation and understanding from within, and precisely, therefore, it can act in clarity upon the inner life of others.”