Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be like water.
Water does not necessarily have to go through a rock it can simply go around the rock, if it couldn't find a way to pass through it.
A quote from my favourite mentor, he explains the power water has and how strong it can stay against any or most force no matter how one would bend water to change, no situation water finds it self it adapts, it is resilient .
Whenever there are gathering of mass water moving towards a point due to the direction , it has to pass through a lot of boundary that proves has a force, no matter the force against water it would always find a way through, when water encounter a rock or huge stone that it can't run through, it gathers momentum either to run it over or find away around, finding a way around it is usually common, when water sees the power of a rock cannot be over thrown or passed through, it finds a way to get around it, in order to find a passage.
Our lesson from water, we should stay resilient like water when situation arises that may want to burn us , we should be dynamic and remains turns to vapour and still remain what we are. If some circumstances warrants being freezed we should turn to ice and be with the temperature but when the temperature returns high we should always be water, when we are proceeding and we encounter rocky issue we should gather momentum i.e. get more strong people ,more resilient people as we are and find a way . At times we should not always respond to every trouble leave people to rant like a fool and don't give them attention, people devices means to distract one from a certain goals that seem relevant at a particular time, the better is to frustrate them by remaining commited to the goal before one's life . If one is ready to pick all offences against everything that. Someone said to our self them we would be derailed .
A quote says " any one can be angry , but the time to be angry, to whom and what degree , to be angry no one knows. So as to avoid distraction in a goal it better to stay committed , and avoid every side disturbance . I remember reading about a man that starts building the airplane he let People gets the best of his emotions as People believe it a crazy ideas for man to make a flying object, people see him as a witch or sort of bonker who doesn't understand the nature of man can't fly some even sighted big birds like the peacock , ostrich and co, that cannot fly , then how would man be able to fly. He was furious and left the project, well the Wright brothers get hold of the project and make history that's resilient .
We can learn a great lesson from the water pattern may changes, situation may arise bit that doesn't change who we are .and our resilience shows how better we are.
Water is every ones friend and no man's enemy all living things from the plants to all animals have a dealings with water either directly or indirectly it's a source of life to everything . No animal or plant can fight against water, it is need for a significant purpose of anyone or any living things fights water that would spell the end of the existence. Water is indispensable.
the better and best of this is what we should consider as well as make sure, we should make our self indispensable, useful, focused and determined like water.
I think the main point here is honestly adaptability since water is basically adaptable to almost anything