Book 29 was of the books that caught my attention most. "Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it? I do not believe it can be done. If you try to change it, you will ruin it. If you try to hold it, you will lose it". In this passage, I found there to be a very regrettful truth. As we attempt to change the world to satisfy our whims, we destroy it. And as we try even harder to hold it and control it, it escapes from our grasp.
Book 33 is also a very intriguing one. "he who knows he has enough is rich...To die but not to perish is to be eternally present." These are such extraordinary thoughts, I think they mean to say that when we stop seeking and being greedy, we will be rich. When we are completely satisfied with who we are, what we have and what we do, we will be whole. As to the second passage, I think it means that if you have done good in your life, then you will live in those who remember and in that way, dead yet not perished, you will always be there.
In book 36, there was a passage that I took in mind. "Before recieving, there must be giving." What is being said here is that some things must be done before others, some things come first. And in order to be happy, we must put others first.
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Good close reading. In the future I would like to see better transitions between your ideas, or textual analyses.
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