The sorting
Two people can make the same claim. The one who pays for it owns it.
The fixed nature of things
Nothing
ever changes.
VOLUME I
You are not becoming. You are being revealed.
The first principle
Some people could not change who they are, even if they tried.
They would have to change before they could even try to change.
The evidence
I—VIICowardice
Everyone feels fear. The coward is the one who lets fear keep writing the schedule after danger has passed.
Losing
A loser is not a person who loses. It is a person whose explanation survives every loss unchanged.
Pots in Peru
New scenery gives old nature a more flattering background.
The sacrifice test
A serious choice costs you something you wanted to keep.
What you have
What is used receives more. What is neglected loses even the little it had.
The left behind
The person who acts gains experience, skill, and another chance. The person who waits gains none of them.
Four witnesses
ENTERED WITHOUT APPEAL“How come I’m not making pots in Peru? You’re born to this shit. You are what you are.”
“Those who can’t sacrifice anything can’t change anything.”
“From him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.”
“Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”
The arithmetic of the world
Some are given more.
Some lose even what they had.The difference compounds until the winner calls it character and the loser calls it fate. The record accepts both names and keeps the result.
The ledger
Who appears when change sends the bill?
The question is not whether people can change. It is whether you keep showing up when change costs you something.
QUESTION 1 OF 5