day no. 15,096: if you pick up one end of the stick...

"Principles don't react to anything. Principles don't die. They do not change. Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. 'If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.'" - Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Principles are inescapable. So inescapable, in fact, that they are even beyond the typical inescapable equation of "which?" whether than "if." They are so fundamental, there is not even the question of "which?" There is not a smorgasbord of principles. There are only the principles we have, provided by God: indestructible, unchangeable, indifferent, persistent, and inescapable.

Either you get in line with principles or you are out of line. There are no other lines. There is a narrow path upon which principles rule and a wide path where they don't which ends in destruction because it has no foundation.

"If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other."

And conversely, if you do not pick up one end of the stick, you do not hold the other.