[extropy-chat] You must be willing to give up everything

[Alex Ramonsky]

"Forgo what is near; win what is afar" -in the I Ching is translated as 
meaning something like this. Of course, nobody knows who wrote the I 
Ching...it could have been Robert?
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Damien Broderick wrote:

>>> You must be willing to give up everything you are for what you 
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>>might become [1].
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>>Excellent statement!  Before I add this to my quote file with 
>>attribution to Robert, can anyone tell me of the existence of a more 
>>original source of this powerful insight?
>>- Jef
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>Erm... John 12:24 ?
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>"Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the 
>earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears 
>much fruit."
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>Not *quite* the same, and rather primitive botany, but still.
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>Damien Broderick
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