Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; Benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness. Date Masamune
Rectitude
Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. As without bones the head cannot rest on the top of the spine, nor hands move nor feet stand, so without rectitude neither talent nor learning can make of a human frame a samurai. With it the lack of accomplishments is as nothing. Anonymous Bushi
A Power of Resolution
Rectitude is the power of deciding upon a certain course of conduct in accordance with reason, without wavering – to die when it is right to die, to strike when to strike is right. Anonymous Bushi
Ecclesiastes 5: 8
“If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of justice and righteousness in a government, marvel not at the matter: for the highness is watched by another highness; and there are yet (4) higher ones watching over them.”
Only by studying Kabbalah / the Tree of Life can we discover what “the highest upon the highest” truly is.