But people see only what is supported; they do not reflect on the support, or inquire into it. How so? In a garland, the thread is the support of all the flowers; without it the flowers could never become a garland. Yet people look chiefly at the flowers. What meets the eye, too, is the flowers. The thread, the support, is not seen in the ordinary way; only inquiry reveals it. By this comparison, the supported flowers are in the support, but the thread, the support, is not in the supported flowers.