Genesis 13:10 · World English Bible
Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
A choice made on what fills the eye today will bill a person for everything the eye left out. One criterion can run an entire life when nothing else is allowed into the frame.
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A choice made on what fills the eye today will bill a person for everything the eye left out.
One criterion can run an entire life when nothing else is allowed into the frame. Well watered was the whole standard, and a standard sets the feeling, the feeling sets the direction, and a direction taken becomes an address.
Everything omitted was available. Who lived on that ground, and what Yahweh would eventually do about them, were both real at the moment of the survey, and neither entered the arithmetic. This is how a ruinous decision and a shrewd one feel identical while they are being made. A person who weighs only what is visible and immediate keeps choosing the richer ground and keeps ending up somewhere they would never have chosen on purpose.
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What am I choosing right now on one feature alone?
The five colors blind the eye and the five flavors dull the mouth. What is loud and bright crowds out everything quieter that was also in the room, so the sage judges by the center rather than by what shouts.
When something attractive presents itself, hold it at arm's length and name what comes with it, including the part that will arrive later. The impression is not the thing; the untested impression is what costs you.
When the mind dwells on the attractive feature of a thing, craving takes that feature for the whole object. Restraint at the sense doors means seeing the thing complete, with what it carries.
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