Chapter Ninety-Three: The Shadow of Death
On the calm sea, everyone is a navigator. But there is only sunshine and no shadows, only joy and no pain. That's not life, take the life of the happiest person as an example - it's a tangled twine, bereavement and happiness wishes are connected to each other, making us sad and happy for a while, and even death itself makes life more amiable. In the waking moments of life, under the shadow of grief and sadness, people's true selves are the closest. In the affairs of life or profession, the role of character is much greater than that of intelligence, the role of the mind is not as good as that of mood, and the talent is not as good as self-control, patience, and regularity, which are controlled by judgment. I have always believed that people who begin to live more seriously on the inside will also begin to live more modest on the outside, in an age that seems luxurious and wasteful. I want to show the world that what humans really need is very small. Remorse your mistakes, and strive not to repeat the mistakes of the past, this is the real repentance, superior to others, not noble, the real noble should be better than the past self!
The tree is the preacher who taught me earnestly. I revere every tree, whether it is a gathering or a family tree, and whether it grows in a reckless primeval forest or in a small grove. However, what I admire the most is the towering tree that stands alone! They are like a lonely man, but they are not a gentleman who has been reclusive because of a weakness, but like a great man who has been put in a lonely situation, like Beethoven, like Nietzsche. Their treetops rattle the whole world, and their roots lie in eternity. But it does not indulge in this eternity, but devotes its whole life to the pursuit of one goal: to fulfill the qualities and morals that they are born with and inhabit them, to establish their own image, to express themselves. There is nothing in the world that is as sacred and perfect as a tall and strong tree. If there is a sawn tree that bare its fatal wounds in the sun, then you can read its whole history on that bright stump, its tombstone: the rings and scars that faithfully record every struggle, every sickness, every pain, and, of course, all happiness. They record the whole process of its growth, the years of hunger and poverty, the years of abundance, and the attacks that have been overcome and the storms that have survived. Thus, every farmer's son knows that the hardest trees, and thus the most precious materials, have the tightest rings. They know that the tree that has grown on the top of the mountain is the indestructible, thunderous, and exemplary pillar of the world.
On the calm sea, everyone is a navigator. But there is only sunshine and no shadows, only joy and no pain. That's not life, take the life of the happiest person as an example - it's a tangled twine, bereavement and happiness wishes are connected to each other, making us sad and happy for a while, and even death itself makes life more amiable. In the waking moments of life, under the shadow of grief and sadness, people's true selves are the closest. In the affairs of life or profession, the role of character is much greater than that of intelligence, the role of the mind is not as good as that of mood, and the talent is not as good as self-control, patience, and regularity, which are controlled by judgment. I have always believed that people who begin to live more seriously on the inside will also begin to live more modest on the outside, in an age that seems luxurious and wasteful. I want to show the world that what humans really need is very small. Remorse your mistakes, and strive not to repeat the mistakes of the past, this is the real repentance, superior to others, not noble, the real noble should be better than the past self!
The tree is the preacher who taught me earnestly. I revere every tree, whether it is a gathering or a family tree, and whether it grows in a reckless primeval forest or in a small grove. However, what I admire the most is the towering tree that stands alone! They are like a lonely man, but they are not a gentleman who has been reclusive because of a weakness, but like a great man who has been put in a lonely situation, like Beethoven, like Nietzsche. Their treetops rattle the whole world, and their roots lie in eternity. But it does not indulge in this eternity, but devotes its whole life to the pursuit of one goal: to fulfill the qualities and morals that they are born with and inhabit them, to establish their own image, to express themselves. There is nothing in the world that is as sacred and perfect as a tall and strong tree. If there is a sawn tree that bare its fatal wounds in the sun, then you can read its whole history on that bright stump, its tombstone: the rings and scars that faithfully record every struggle, every sickness, every pain, and, of course, all happiness. They record the whole process of its growth, the years of hunger and poverty, the years of abundance, and the attacks that have been overcome and the storms that have survived. Thus, every farmer's son knows that the hardest trees, and thus the most precious materials, have the tightest rings. They know that the tree that has grown on the top of the mountain is the indestructible, thunderous, and exemplary pillar of the world.
On the calm sea, everyone is a navigator. But there is only sunshine and no shadows, only joy and no pain. That's not life, take the life of the happiest person as an example - it's a tangled twine, bereavement and happiness wishes are connected to each other, making us sad and happy for a while, and even death itself makes life more amiable. In the waking moments of life, under the shadow of grief and sadness, people's true selves are the closest. In the affairs of life or profession, the role of character is much greater than that of intelligence, the role of the mind is not as good as that of mood, and the talent is not as good as self-control, patience, and regularity, which are controlled by judgment. I have always believed that people who begin to live more seriously on the inside will also begin to live more modest on the outside, in an age that seems luxurious and wasteful. I want to show the world that what humans really need is very small. Remorse your mistakes, and strive not to repeat the mistakes of the past, this is the real repentance, superior to others, not noble, the real noble should be better than the past self!
The tree is the preacher who taught me earnestly. I revere every tree, whether it is a gathering or a family tree, and whether it grows in a reckless primeval forest or in a small grove. However, what I admire the most is the towering tree that stands alone! They are like a lonely man, but they are not a gentleman who has been reclusive because of a weakness, but like a great man who has been put in a lonely situation, like Beethoven, like Nietzsche. Their treetops rattle the whole world, and their roots lie in eternity. But it does not indulge in this eternity, but devotes its whole life to the pursuit of one goal: to fulfill the qualities and morals that they are born with and inhabit them, to establish their own image, to express themselves. There is nothing in the world that is as sacred and perfect as a tall and strong tree. If there is a sawn tree that bare its fatal wounds in the sun, then you can read its whole history on that bright stump, its tombstone: the rings and scars that faithfully record every struggle, every sickness, every pain, and, of course, all happiness. They record the whole process of its growth, the years of hunger and poverty, the years of abundance, and the attacks that have been overcome and the storms that have survived. Thus, every farmer's son knows that the hardest trees, and thus the most precious materials, have the tightest rings. They know that the tree that has grown on the top of the mountain is the indestructible, thunderous, and exemplary pillar of the world.
On the calm sea, everyone is a navigator. But there is only sunshine and no shadows, only joy and no pain. That's not life, take the life of the happiest person as an example - it's a tangled twine, bereavement and happiness wishes are connected to each other, making us sad and happy for a while, and even death itself makes life more amiable. In the waking moments of life, under the shadow of grief and sadness, people's true selves are the closest. In the affairs of life or profession, the role of character is much greater than that of intelligence, the role of the mind is not as good as that of mood, and the talent is not as good as self-control, patience, and regularity, which are controlled by judgment. I have always believed that people who begin to live more seriously on the inside will also begin to live more modest on the outside, in an age that seems luxurious and wasteful. I want to show the world that what humans really need is very small. Remorse your mistakes, and strive not to repeat the mistakes of the past, this is the real repentance, superior to others, not noble, the real noble should be better than the past self!
The tree is the preacher who taught me earnestly. I revere every tree, whether it is a gathering or a family tree, and whether it grows in a reckless primeval forest or in a small grove. However, what I admire the most is the towering tree that stands alone! They are like a lonely person, but they are not in seclusion because of a weakness.