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In article <630047351b1182daac9f52b91aa0af85@www.novabbs.com>,
ltlee1 <ltlee1@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Quotable Quotes from Richard Beck on history who's book Homeland:The War
>in Terror on American life which also gives people “a framework for
>figuring out how to think about politics, living under a government
>that’s so uninterested in being responsive to democratic input.”
>
>https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2024/09/harvard-richard-beck-homeland
>
> “...history is something you have to try to understand even as you live
>through it.”
>
>
>The famous words of Zhuangzi is 吾生也有涯，而知也无涯 。以有涯随无涯，殆已！
>In English, "My life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To pursue
>the limitless with one's limited life is a perilous undertaking! "
>
>Richard Beck is not contradicting Zhuangzi. Rather, he is giving a
>minimalist answer to Zhuangzi's words. Every person is the sum of all
>what one has lived through. To have a richer life, i.e. the greater than
>the sum of parts, does require one to understand what one has lived
>through.

That helps, but it is much more important to know yourself, at the core, outside of experience.

You can do this, Dr. Lee. I know you can.