Change has the negative meaning that everything absolute and unconditional already implies its own death

[Change] has the negative meaning that everything absolute and unconditional already implies its own death. On the other hand, it also means that easy conformity, a habit of allowing oneself to drift this way and that, an unresisting acceptance of developments, sweeps one into the current of events from which escape is no longer possible. Only by taking up a counterposition, by confronting events with live awareness, can developments be guided into the desired paths.

Richard Wilhelm 1943, p.34